​Lit Terms

• Characterization - the way an author presents characters

  • direct or explicit: character described by author or narrator

  • indirect or implicit: character's traits revealed by thoughts, actions, dialogue or appearance

• Connotation - emotional response suggested by a word

• Dynamic Character - a character that changes throughout the story

• Static Character - a character who stays the same throughout the story

• Euphemism - a mild word or expression substituting for a harsh or blunt word or phrase (ex. saying someone passed instead of someone died)

​Lit Terms

• Symbol - any person, animal, place, object or event that exists on a literal level within a work but also represents something on a figurative level

  • example: a dove symbolizing peace

• Theme - main idea or message of a story, poem, novel, or play often expressed as a general statement about life

• Tone - expresses the author's attitude towards their subject

​Lit Terms

• Satire - a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work

• Allegory - a story in which characters, events and places stand for ideas, qualities or other events

  • they are made to teach a moral lesson

• Fable - a brief tale designed to illustrate a moral lesson

  • often characters are animals

Animal Farm is an satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a fable.