| A | B |
| Squealer | You don't wnat Jones back, do you? |
| Benjamin | When Boxer was taken away. Fools, Fools, Do you not see what is written on the side of that van? |
| Squealer | Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon has stated categorically-categorically, comrade, that Snowball was Jones' agent from the beginning |
| sheep | Four legs good, two legs bad, repeated again and again |
| not a fable | the major character rises from a humble background to a position of power |
| a fable | the characters are animals with human characteristics |
| totalitarian | govenment controlled by one party or group |
| vanity | a quality of Mollie |
| irony | the literal meaning is the opposite of what is intended |
| idealism | the character of Old Major |