On the third sunday after snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. he did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations. the plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail. a special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks. the building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years. that evening squealer explained privately to the other animals that napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. on the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among napoleon's papers. the windmill was, in fact, napoleon's own creation. why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? here squealer looked very sly. that, he said, was comrade napoleon's cunning. he had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. now that snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference. this, said squealer, was something called tactics. he repeated a number of times, "tactics, comrades, tactics! " skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh. the animals were not certain what the word meant, but squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions. how does orwell use satire to achieve his purpose in this passage? select two options. he uses parody to show how dictators deflect blame to others. he uses the three dogs to parody the idea that loyalty will be rewarded. he uses reversal to show that dictators do not abide by their principles. he uses squealer's character to parody a naïve follower of a corrupt leader. he uses ridicule to make fun of how people are focused on economic gain.

C. He uses reversal to show that dictators do not abide by their principles.

A. He uses parody to show how dictators deflect blame to others.

Explanation:

George Orwell's "Animal Farm" (1945) is an allegorical novella. It satirizes the soviet government of Russia under the leadership of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is characterized as leader similar to Joseph Stalin, while Squealer is characterized as Vyacheslav Molotov (Soviet's diplomat and foreign minister).

The most correct option is C. Napoleon has clearly abandons his original stance against windmill. So it shows that dictators do not abide by their principles.

The second closest option is A. Napoleon with the help of Squealer blames Snowball of stealing Napoleon's plan to build a windmill. This strategy devalues Snowball's character in the minds of naive animals of the farm.

Option B is totally incorrect, because loyalty rewarded is not a bad thing and hence not a satire. Moreover there is no emphasis on such thing in this passage. Dogs are shown just as dictator's use of power to achieve their goals.

Option D is also totally incorrect because Squealer is very wise strategist and persuasive speech maker. He is in no way a naive character, neither a follower but one of the leaders.

Option E is also incorrect because the naive animals of the farms accept the explanation only because of fear of dictator's use of power (dogs).

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)