Can you tell me what these words mean? 10 points!?

Question

totalitarianism

allegory

satire

capitalism

irony ( situational and verbal)

from Animal Farm.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm going to help you in the best way possible.  I'm going to tell you where you can find the definitions for all these words all by yourself.

Use one of the online dictionaries and write down what they say about each word.  Then read the definitions over and over until you understand what the word REALLY means.  I really don't know why you spent the time asking us to do this for you when you could have done it yourself in the same amount of time.

Answer 2

Totalitarianism is a form of government where one ruler, or group of rulers makes all the laws, and enforces them for the benefit on either their ideology, or themselves.

The pigs in Animal Farm formed a totalitarian system, and determined all definitions of terms, and work to be done by everyone else.

Allegory:  Is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.

In Animal Farm the animals were alegorical characters, representing humans, because we know animals cannot talk.  The pigs used dogs to be their "army" to keep the other animals afraid of them.

The Farmers and humans were alegorical "enemies of the state."

(Their Farm was alegorical nation, for them)

Satire is making fun of something.  Animal Farm is a fun book, because it makes fun of government, democracy, and human behavior in general, especially greedy politicians and the way they manipulate the masses (common folk)

Capitalism is an economic system where by a few capitalist own most of the wealth, like in the USA.  If you don't have money, or wealth, you are jut out of luck.

Types of Irony:  Types of irony

Most modern theories of rhetoric distinguish between three types of irony: verbal, dramatic and situational.

Verbal irony is a disparity of expression and intention: when a speaker says one thing but means another, or when a literal meaning is contrary to its intended effect.

An example of this is sarcasm.



An example of situational irony - A Police car parked illegally in front of a fire hydrantDramatic (or tragic) irony is a disparity of expression and awareness: when words and actions possess a significance that the listener or audience understands, but the speaker or character does not.

Situational irony is the disparity of intention and result: when the result of an action is contrary to the desired or expected effect. Likewise, cosmic irony is disparity between human desires and the harsh realities of the outside world (or the whims of the gods). By some older definitions, situational irony and cosmic irony are not irony at all

I'll let you pick examples from Animal Farm of Irony.  Not too difficult, as you read the book, been years since I've done it.

Answer 3

Man I hated that book in school.

Totalitarianism- 1. the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.

2. absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.

3. the character or quality of an autocratic or authoritarian individual, group, or government: the totalitarianism of the father.

Allegory-      1. a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.

2. a symbolical narrative: the allegory of Piers Plowman.

Satire- 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.

Capitalism- an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.

Irony-. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

2. Literature.

a. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.

b. (esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.

3. Socratic irony.

4. dramatic irony.

5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

6. the incongruity of this.

7. an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.

8. an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.

Answer 4

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