Squealer

• 'The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white'- Metaphor

  Squealer can twist the truth convincingly.

  Uses his charisma to twist the pigs' wrongdoings.

  His is the propagandist.
• 'The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white'
• 'Jones would come back!'- Repetitive Exclamation

  This rhetoric appeals to the animals' fear of Jones.

  Despite the decay of animalism, it still pleases them that they are led by animals.

  Using Jones to cover up decay.
• 'Jones would come back!'
• 'Skipping from side to side and whisking his tail'- Hypnotic Imagery

  The imagery conveys a sense of manipulation.

  Squealer seems happy, manipulating the animals.

  Squealer cannot stay on one side of the truth.
• 'Skipping from side to side and whisking his tail'
• 'No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal'- Ironic Facts

  The animals take what they hear at face value.

  A lack of education causes a lack of knowledge.

  Knowledge is power.
• 'No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal'
• 'Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?'- Rhetorical Question

  Squealer wants the animals to compare their current experiences to Jones' time.

  He has portrayed Jones' reign as an inescapable hell.
• 'Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?'
• 'So persuasively', 'So threateningly'- Adverbs

  The animals are being manipulated in front of their own eyes.

  They can see this but are too dumb to realise that their may be another truth they are not being told.
• 'So persuasively', 'So threateningly'
• Personal Pronouns of 'You', 'We'

  'We' is used to separate the pigs from the other animals. Occasionally, he uses it to refer to the farm.

  'You' is used repeatedly in an accusatory tone, blaming the animals for any misdeeds.
• Personal Pronouns of 'You', 'We'
• 'When Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it'- Dramatic Irony

  Language and writing is truth, believed by the animals.

  The animals' stupidity is what leads them to allow the pigs to take such totalitarian charge.
• 'When Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it'
• 'The goodness of his heart'- Irony

  Whatever Squealer says, is believed.

  If a totalitarian government can control language then they are controlling reality.

  Napoleon has no goodness to his heart.
• 'The goodness of his heart'
• 'An overturned pot of white paint'- Treacherous Imagery

  The truth has literally been flipped upside down, white paint represents truth.

  The animals see Squealer but too blind to understand.

  The animals follow the masses-each other.
• 'An overturned pot of white paint'
• 'A readjustment never as a reduction'- Motif of language

  Squealer makes it sound like a fixed amount if being shared.

  Language is used to change the animals' reality.
• 'A readjustment never as a reduction'
• 'Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice'- Imagery

  Squealer has no physical imposition.

  He makes the animals believe what they want to believe through language.

  This is the only way, physical intimidation will shut them up but not change their opinions.
• 'Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice'