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Propaganda Techniques Used In Snowball's Animal Farm

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In this poster, the animal that I chose is Snowball. Snowball is an intelligent, passionate, eloquent pig who is less devious than Napoleon. Snowball seems to win the loyalty of the other animals and he sticks to his power. A certain event that happened in the book was when Snowball thought that the animals would have much easier lives if they are able to build the windmill. Snowball says that building the windmill would l allow the animals to have electricity. I illustrated this event on my poster because it shows how snowball cares about the animals.

The propaganda techniques that I used in my poster were bandwagon and glittering generalities. The pigs and sheep working on the windmill shows bandwagon because it lets the other animals want
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