Animal Farm: Textual Features | Literary Techniques

"The language used in Animal Farm as well as its form and structure are vital to Orwell’s storytelling. His use of persuasive language, circular narrative and allegory are particularly significant."

"It's time to revise and learn about the form, structure and language of Animal Farm by George Orwell with this activity. The questions will help you develop your understanding and really get to grips with this great text."

"Contextualizes the allegorical novel that established George Orwell as the greatest British satirist since Jonathan Swift ... "

An analysis of the language techniques used in George Orwell's Animal Farm.

"George Orwell's repeated insistence on plain, firm language reflects his confidence in ordinary truth. This is visible in the language of the narrator in Animal Farm, which is characterized by syntactic tidiness and verbal pithiness ... "

"... Orwell said that he wanted to write the book in a simple language because he wanted to tell ordinary English people, who had enjoyed a tradition of justice and liberty for centuries, what a totalitarian system was like. His experience in Spain had shown him 'how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries' and he wrote the book to destroy the 'Soviet myth' that Russia was a truly socialist society ... "