NAME: _______________________________________
PERIOD: _________
PART I: IRONY IN ANIMAL FARM
Directions: read each excerpt from Animal Farm and write down whether the excerpt is an
example of dramatic, situational, or verbal irony.
1. _____________________________
“Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked ‘Horse
Slaughterer’… It was almost unbelievable said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid
(p. 125).”
2. _____________________________
“Squealer says “I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon
has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine that leadership is a
pleasure (p. 69).”
3. _____________________________
(In chapter 3, Napoleon gets drunk) “By the evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be
somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was
well on the way to recovery. By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and
on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon
some booklets on brewing and distilling (p. 112).”
4. _____________________________
At the very end of the novel, “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No
question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from
pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to
say which was which (p. 139).”
PART II: FORESHADOWING AND FLASHBACK IN ANIMAL FARM
Directions: read each excerpt from Animal Farm and write down whether the excerpt contains
an example of foreshadowing or flashback.
1. _____________________________ “You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours
lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for
the foxhounds (p. 30).”
2. _____________________________ “Many years ago when I was a little pig, my mother and the
other sows used to sing an old song of which they knew only the tune and first three words (p. 32).”
3. _____________________________ At the end of chapter two, when Napoleon tells the rest of
the animals to go on ahead with Squealer while he stays behind to take care of the milk. The last line
of the chapter tells you that the next day, the milk disappears completely (p. 44).