Wednesday, February 22, 2012

What are the key parts of this novel I should remember for an exam?

For a major end-of-unit 1984 test I would know the
following:


Major Elements of
Works


  1. Narrator / Point of
    View

  2. Tone / Style of the
    author

  3. Background of author

  4. Setting (Time &
    Place)

  5. Protagonist /
    Antagonist

  6. Major / Round
    Characters

  7. Minor / Flat
    Characters

  8. Climax / Turning
    Point

  9. Themes

  10. Symbols /
    Motifs

  11. Foreshadowing

  12. Mythology
    / Allusions

  13. Major Quotes / Famous
    Lines

1984 Terms. Be
prepared to define and discuss significance of the following terms, people, places, and
Newspeak
vocabulary:


  1. dystopia

  2. satire

  3. Big
    Brother

  4. the
    Brotherhood

  5. capitalists

  6. Chestnut
    Tree
    Café

  7. doublespeak

  8. doublethink

  9. Oceania
    vs. Eurasia vs. Eastasia

  10. the Golden
    Country

  11. Emmanuel
    Goldstein

  12. Goldstein’s
    book

  13. Hateweek

  14. Ingsoc

  15. Inner
    Party vs. Outer
    Party

  16. Proles

  17. Jones,
    Aaronson, and Rutherford

  18. Junior Anti-sex
    League

  19. memory
    hole

  20. Ministry of
    Love

  21. Ministry of
    Truth

  22. Minstiry of
    Plenty

  23. Ministry of
    Peace

  24. nationalism

  25. Newspeak

  26. Oldspeak

  27. ownlife

  28. Room
    101

  29. sexcrime vs.
    goodsex

  30. the
    spies

  31. telescreen

  32. thoughtcrime

  33. Two
    Minutes
    Hate

  34. vaporization

  35. “Oranges
    and Lemons…”

  36. "War is
    Peace"

  37. "Freedom is
    Slavery"

  38. "Ignorance is
    Strength"

  39. types of
    propaganda

  40. surveillance vs.
    privacy

  41. totalitarian governments (name 2
    types)

  42. censorship

  43. “mutability
    of the past”

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