This board helps players review Literature · Dystopian through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Setting, Concepts, Themes, Trivia & Quotes. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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The protagonist who rewrites history.
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Winston Smith
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The country Winston lives in.
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Oceania
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Surveillance device in every home.
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Telescreen
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Central theme — government overreach.
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Totalitarianism
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Year published.
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1949
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The three superstates constantly at war.
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Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia
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Board content
Characters
- $100 — The protagonist who rewrites history.
- Winston Smith
- $200 — The woman Winston loves.
- Julia
- $300 — The mysterious Inner Party member.
- O'Brien
- $400 — The dictator everyone sees on posters.
- Big Brother
- $500 — The supposed enemy of the Party.
- Emmanuel Goldstein
Setting
- $100 — The country Winston lives in.
- Oceania
- $200 — The city where the novel takes place.
- London (Airstrip One)
- $300 — The Ministry where Winston works.
- Ministry of Truth (Minitrue)
- $400 — The Ministry of Love handles this.
- Torture / 'love' is enforcement
- $500 — The torture room where Winston is broken.
- Room 101
Concepts
- $100 — Surveillance device in every home.
- Telescreen
- $200 — The Party's contradictory thought process.
- Doublethink
- $300 — The simplified language designed to limit thought.
- Newspeak
- $400 — Crime of even thinking against the Party.
- Thoughtcrime
- $500 — The Party slogan about war, freedom and ignorance.
- War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength
Themes
- $100 — Central theme — government overreach.
- Totalitarianism
- $200 — The Party's manipulation of facts.
- Truth and propaganda (alternative facts)
- $300 — Loss of individual identity.
- Individuality vs. collectivism
- $400 — Control of communication through this concept.
- Language as control
- $500 — The novel warns against this kind of state.
- Surveillance state
Trivia & Quotes
- $100 — Year published.
- 1949
- $200 — Famous opening: 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking ___.'
- Thirteen
- $300 — Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth.
- Altering historical records
- $400 — What Winston fears most (revealed in Room 101).
- Rats
- $500 — The book's final line — Winston loves this.
- Big Brother
Author & Context
- $100 — The three superstates constantly at war.
- Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia
- $200 — The three Party slogans plastered everywhere.
- War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength
- $300 — The 20th-century regimes Orwell drew from.
- Stalinist USSR and Nazi Germany
- $400 — Orwell's other famous political allegory.
- Animal Farm
- $500 — Adjective meaning 'authoritarian and dystopian'.
- Orwellian
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