| A | B |
| Mollie | represents materialism and vain nobles who ran |
| Squealer | represents propaganda |
| Snowball | represents Stalin's rival, Trotsky |
| Old Major | represents Marx |
| Jones | represents Czar Nicholas II |
| Moses | represents the Russian Orthodox Church |
| Dogs | represents the KGB (secret police) |
| Boxer | represents the working class |
| Benjamin | represents the cynics or skeptics |
| Sheep | represents the masses of people |
| Animalism | represents Communism |
| England | literal setting of Animal Farm |
| Russia | symbolic setting of Animal Farm |
| Satire | presenting a serious issue in a ridiculous/humorous way |
| Allegory | story that can be read on more than one level |
| Propaganda | information spreak for the purpose of promoting ideas or a cause |