Background Info or What means What

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Background InfoorWhat means What

• (Things you need to know for
• Animal Farm)

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Key People/Events

• Russian Revolution When the peasants/working
  class of Russia decided to revolt against the
  aristocracy in 1917. Also called the Bolshevik
  Revolution
• Marx and Lenin
• Started the Revolution.
• Wanted all men to be equal and all men to
  contribute their fair share to society.
• No more Ruling Class just by virtue of ones
  birth or place in society.
• Dreamed of a society where all men work together
  and SHARE in the profits

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• Czar Nicholas
• The leader of pre-Revolutionary Russia
• controlling force that would take from the
  peasants without fair compensation
• By virtue of his birth, he was the leader
• Killed in the Revolution

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• Josef Stalin
• Began his rise to power with good intentions
• eventually became corrupted by greed and his
  quest for power
• Became a dictator who eventually slaughtered
  millions of Russian peasants

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• Trotsky
• Supported Lenin and Marxs ideas and worked to
  start the Revolution
• sent into exile by Stalin and murdered in Mexico

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• Proletariat
• The working class of Russia who is ill-informed
  and uneducated
• believe wholeheartedly in their leaders
• wont accept the fact that they are being used by
  their government

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• Pravda
• The propaganda tool of the Communist Party.
• Controlled by whom?
• KGB
• Very scary group
• deeply feared by the people of Russia.

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ALLEGORY

• An extended metaphor in which objects, persons,
  and actions in a narrative are equated with
  meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
• Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a
  literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

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IRONY

• Irony is when the opposite of what is expected to
  happen occurs.
• Three kinds of irony
• verbal irony is when an author says one thing and
  means something else.
• dramatic irony is when an audience perceives
  something that a character in the literature does
  not know.
• irony of situation is a discrepancy between the
  expected result and actual results.

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SATIRE

• A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of
  human vice or weakness, often with the intent of
  correcting, or changing, the subject of the
  satiric attack.

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FABLE

• Giving human speech and manners to animals and
  inanimate things. Fables often conclude with a
  moral, delivered in the form of a sentence to
  summarize the lesson.

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PROPAGANDA

• information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread
  widely to help or harm a person, group, movement,
  institution, nation, etc.