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ColungaRosemary
10.12.2020 • 
Mathematics

HELP RN PLEASE. Read the excerpt from chapter 10 of Animal Farm.
How does Orwell use irony in this excerpt?
Years passed. The seasons came and went, the short
animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one
who remembered the old days before the Rebellion,
except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a
number of the pigs.
Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were
dead. Jones too was dead he had died in an inebriates
home in another part of the country. Snowball was
forgotten. Boxer was forgotten, except by the few who
had known him. Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff
in the joints and with a tendency to rheumy eyes. She
was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal
had ever actually retired. The talk of setting aside a
corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had
long since been dropped. Napoleon was now a mature
boar of twenty-four stone. Squealer was so fat that he
O by using humor to demonstrate how few animals
remember the rebellion
O by illustrating that the news of the rebellion was
exaggerated for dramatic effect
O by building suspense about what the current animals
know about the rebellion
O by showing that readers know more about the
rebellion than most of the animals

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