Animal Farm
Unit Review Sheet
These facts and definitions should be mastered throughout this unit. This page can be used for periodic review and study as you are finishing the unit and in the future.
Facts and Definitions
Lesson 1: What Is a Theme?
- A topic is a subject or something that is dealt with in a text or conversation.
- The plot of a story is its main events, presented by the author in a particular order.
- A theme is an idea that is important in a work of literature or the message that the author is trying to share.
Lesson 2: Major's Dream
- Understanding the roles of different parts of speech can be an important part of writing powerful and effective prose.
Lesson 3: The Rebellion
- Pronouns are words used to take the places of nouns.
- Personal pronouns refer to specific people or things.
- Interrogative pronouns (such as "who" and "what") usually begin questions.
- Relative pronouns begin a special type of dependent clause called a relative clause. Relative pronouns include words like "who," "that," and "which."
- An antecedent is the word to which a pronoun refers.
- Personal pronouns must have clear antecedents.
Lesson 4: Work on the Farm
- A business letter format is used when writing to employees of businesses or organizations or to government officials.
- A friendly letter format is used for correspondence between family members, friends, or acquaintances. It is a less formal type of letter.
Lesson 5: The Battle of the Cowshed
- A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in number, gender, and person, and pronoun antecedents must be clear.
- Indefinite pronouns (like someone, anything, and nobody) do not refer to a specific person or thing.
Lesson 6: Comrade Napoleon
- A satire is a literary work that uses humor or exaggeration to point out vices, often of those involved in politics.
- George Orwell intended Animal Farm to be a satire of the Russian Revolution.
- Pronouns can be in the subjective, objective, or possessive case.
Lesson 7: Changes on the Farm
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Lesson 8: The End of the Rebellion
- The purpose and recipient of a letter will determine the appropriate form that the letter should take — either a business letter or a friendly letter.
Lesson 9: The Battle of the Windmill
- Personification is a literary device in which animals or objects are given human qualities or characteristics.
- It's important to focus on not only the format of business letters but also the tone of the text.
- A business letter should be concise, professional, and courteous.
Lesson 10: Boxer's Fate
- Diagramming the plot of a work of fiction can be a great first step in analyzing it.
- A work of literature's theme will be reflected in specific incidents that occur within it.
- You will find that you have identified a significant or important theme if you are able to point to particular parts of the story where that theme is evident.
- The argument that a theme is central to a book is only really valid if you can provide evidence from the text to support that argument.
Lesson 11: The Farmers Pay a Visit
- The animals created seven commandments early in their rule of the farm, but by the end of the novel, the implementation of those commandments had changed considerably.
- Themes in literature can help us understand a novel more deeply, and those themes can also be applied to historical and present-day situations.
- Often, the theme of a novel can tell us a lot about how the author thinks the world works or wishes that it might work.
Final Project: Animal Farm Letter
- Be sure to study for your unit test — you'll want to review the format and style of business and friendly letters and also review pronouns and their uses (including cases and antecedents).
