English 2A-2013 Read the excerpt from chapter 10 of Animal Farm
Years pussed. The seasons came and went, the short
animal lives tied 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 tact no animal had ever actually retired. The talk
of sering 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 far that he could with difficulty see out
How does Orwell use irony in this excerpt?
O by using humor to demonstrate how few animals
remember the rebelion
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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