Symbolism and Allegory

1. Absolute rule characterized by cruelty.
3. A type of government where one leader has total control and ignores the rights of the people.
5. A word used to describe situations that are unnecessarily complicated, frustrating, or surreal.
11. The feeling of being an outsider or cut off from a group.
12. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.
13. Kafka's famous novella about a salesman who wakes up as a giant insect.
14. A story that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
15. Openly resisting or refusing to obey someone in power.

2. the Turtle The title of the Dr. Seuss' allegory about a power-hungry leader who builds a throne out of his subjects.
4. A system of government or business with many complicated rules and lots of paperwork.
6. When an author uses a specific object or character to represent a larger idea.
7. Prolonged unjust treatment.
8. A story where the characters and events stand for something else—usually a big idea about politics, history, or morality
9. To mistreat others just to get ahead.
10. An allegory of the Russian Revolution set in a barnyard.