(e) How comforting it is to stand and look at the accomplishment of long years of hard work, wasted and destroyed by savage hands,
ACTIVITY 2
Read the following selection.
Select all examples of irony which the speaker uses.
What is the effect of this literary device in the selection?
Some of the most outstanding economists agree that a viable agricultural sector is the key to economic
growth. The leaders of Megamonia fully support this view by withholding subsidies now due to farmers.
To the problems of droughts, floods, diseases, pracdial larceny which frustrate the farmer's efforts from
time to time, these leaders continue to lend a dcal car
How can we expect them to assist farmers when their prionty is to subsidize the importation of food?
Isn't it more economical to import food than to grow your food? Cheap subsidized food is much better
than locally produced food. How will our låste for foreign food be satisfied if they do not import food?
can of pineapple chunks is far more delicious than a freshly picked pineapple. Canned vegetables are
more nutritious than fresh ones. We must compliment the leaders of Megamonia for their wisdom in this
direction. There is much talk among our economisis about striving for self sullīciency. Why should we
strive for self sufficiency when there are foreign markets to depend on? All the unnecessary hardships
and frustrations which farmers face in growing their own food are avoided when we import food.
Should we impose more burdens upon the leaders of Megamonia by advocating support for farmers?
After all, they have to spend money on more important things such as hosting foreign visitors, paying
foreign consultants, travelling abroad to semmars and other so called business trips which accomplish
everything else but their main objectives
May I ask why should farmers be given incentives to grow more food when the Tourist Industry is boom-
ing now more than ever?
Isn't it better to put all our eggs in one basket in it better to leave hrae tracks of land undeveloped
while poverty and hunger stalk the land?​