Reading assessment: george orwell | English homework help

 

Instructions: Answer the following questions related to George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”; these questions are designed to get you thinking about understanding the text, and designed to get you thinking about the value of the text:

  1. What does Orwell mean when he writes about the decline of language?
  2. What are two common issues Orwell sees as “tricks by means of which the work of prose construction is habitually dodged”?
  3. What, according to Orwell, is wrong with “gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the result presentable by sheer humbug”?
  4. What does it mean when Orwell notes that political speech and writing is “largely the defence of the indefensible”?
  5. I know this is a hard reading guys — so think about this: Why would I make you guys read this, despite knowing the challenges that exist in reading this material?  Why do you think reading this is important for you to understanding writing?
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