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Animal Farm, Part 8: Satire and Irony Answers

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Which theme is best supported by this passage?

Power can corrupt anyone.

Power creates divisions within society.

Naive citizens enable corrupt governments.

The abuse of language leads to the abuse of power.

Which statement best explains how Orwell uses irony to develop the theme that ideals can be corrupted in practice?

Orwell uses dramatic irony to highlight the ignorance of the farm animals.

Orwell uses situational irony to expose the difference between expectations and reality.

Orwell uses irony of reversal to emphasize the intelligence of the pigs in comparison to that of the other farm animals.

Orwell uses verbal irony to create a situation that is impossible for the animals to comprehend.

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