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Allegory and Rhetoric Through Research. Animal Farm. Allegory and Rhetoric Through Research. Part I Choose one of the characters from Animal Farm that you researched and provided a brief symbolic explanation for.
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Allegory and Rhetoric Through Research • Part I • Choose one of the characters from Animal Farm that you researched and provided a brief symbolic explanation for. • Make a T-Chart showing the similarities between the novel’s character and a historical figure. Use the research you found to help you! • Write the character’s name from the novel on the left side, and the name of the historical figure on the right side. Your T-Chart should be divided into the following five categories with explanations for each: • Relationships • Conflicts • Motivations • Lies / Distortions of the Truth / Exaggerations • (They could be the perpetrator or the victim for this category – please specify which.) • Name
Allegory and Rhetoric Through Research • Part II • Rhetoric = use of language to persuade an audience of a belief of point of view • Use your research and answer the following questions. Use complete sentences with a full explanation: • How is this allegory also a rhetoric tale? • What is Orwell trying to persuade the audience to see and understand? • What is Orwell cautioning his audience against? • How does the story of Boxer act as a persuasive argument? • What are the lessons to be learned from Napoleon’s behavior? • What is the warning contained in the changes to the list of commandments? • What is the lesson contained in the final, single commandment: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”?