Animal Farm Vocabulary
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- dictator
- a ruler who has absolute power
- oversimplification
- simplification covers the true meaning
- allegory
- where every aspect of a story is symbolic of a larger idea or concept
- propoganda
- manipulation and control of language
- totalitarianism
- absolute control by a governing branch
- satire
- ridiculing human flaw
- faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
- no logical cause is given or known for the effect
- bandwagon
- to do something everyone else is doing
- begging the question
- avoid answering the question by skirting the issue; often used by politicians
- utopia
- an imaginary place where all things are perfect
- capitalists
- people who control things in a business; a person of great wealth
- euphemism
- substitution of a mild language in place of an offensive or harsh one
- internal contradiction
- one part of a statement contradicts another part
- scapegoat
- someone or something to blame for all bad conditions a leader wants to eradicate