terminology of Animal Farm
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- bandwagon
- do something everyone else is doing
- utopia
- a perfect world
- totalitarianism
- a form of government in which all aspects are controlled by one.
- capitalists
- a person who has capital especially invested in business
- propaganda
- control of the media aimed at influencing a large group of people.
- satire
- a literary work where human vice/folly are exposed through irony or wit
- euphemism
- words often used to soften the true meaning of something
- ignorance of followers
- its important that the followers and supporters of the leader not be too educated
- supporters
- the masses must be behind the leader and feel that his or her new ideas will make a real difference in their lives
- faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
- no logical cause is given or known for the effect
- begging the question
- avoid answering the question by skirting the issue, often used by politicians
- allegory
- a short moral story in which characters,events, ideas etc. are symbols for somehting else.
- dictator
- a person granted with absolute emergency power.
- scapegoat
- there must be someone or something to blame for all the bad conditions the leader wants to eradicate.
- oversimplification
- simplification covers the true meaning
- euphemism
- use of words to soften the true meaning
- internal contradiction
- one part of a statement contradicts another part