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Reading Arguments
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Reading Arguments
Reading Arguments
- What two qualities do Orwell’s “five specimens” (para. 2) share? According to Orwell, what is the “most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing” (4)?
- Where in the essay does Orwell use deductive reasoning?
- How does Orwell use cause-and-effect argument in his essay? For instance, how does he use it to explain why political speech and writing are bad? What other examples of cause-and-effect argument can you identify?
- Orwell argues that “political language” consists “largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness” (13). What is a euphemism? What does “question-begging” mean?
- Where does Orwell make a proposal argument? What does he propose?
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