Animal Farm is a story in which each animal stands for a specific individual from the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. A reference to a person, place, thing or event. An allusion serves to enrich the stories meaning by evoking relevant associations. The struggle that grows out of opposing forces in the story.
Every story has a conflict.
A sudden realization made by a character. This realization usually awakens the character to the essential nature of a situation, another person, or herself. A device a writer uses to fill in what happened earlier in the story. Usually it takes the form of a scene relived in a characters memory. The introduction of information early in the story hints at later developments.