English - Animal Farm

• Ethos is trustworthiness
• Pathos is emotion, feeling or passion
• Logos is the use of logic to prove a point
• Rhetoric is the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language to motivate, persuade or inform
• Allegory is a symbol to convey a hidden message or deeper meaning e.g the dogs which represent the military
• Visionary is someone with strong and original ideas about the future
• Rebellion is a violent action made by a group of people who are going against something
• Tyranny is the abuse of power by a ruler or government
• Propaganda are lies used to cover up the truth and to persuade people
• Thesis statement: One sentence to answer the question with two different points, begin with a subordinating conjunction and a comma to change between viewpoints
• Authorial intent: Use of adverb opener with a comma to follow (thus, therefore, overall), reference to theme of power/corruption, Orwell's intention to criticise, expose, condemn and on the message that Orwell wants us to consider
• Metaphor: Subject - who/what is being compared to something else?

  Comparison: what are they being compared to?

  Relationship: what are the similarities between the subject and comparison?
• This [literary device] contains a sense of _(choose a noun)_. [Writer] uses [device] to depict/portray/suggest_. Furthermore, the word '_' evokes an image/atmosphere/feeling of _.
• This [structural device(not repetition)] conveys a sense of _. Orwell uses [device] to depict/portray/suggest_. Furthermore, the repetition of the word '_' evokes an image/atmosphere/ feeling of _.
• Onomastics (the study of names): Orwell presents the theme of _ through characterisation of _. Through Orwell's use of onomastics, he is suggesting that this character_.
• For semi-colons, you can pretend that ; means 'and'
• Motifs are hidden symbols that appear more than once or twice e.g Beasts of England