George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Read Politics and the English Language and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. Three qualities are common to the faulty passages Orwell presents: ugliness, stale imagery, and what else?
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2. Orwell finds political writing particularly
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3. Which kind of metaphors, according to Orwell, has no evocative power?
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4. What does Orwell see as the tendency in modern prose?
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5. What is the great enemy of clear language?
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