In this passage, dickens labels a government department "the circumlocution office." what other technique does dickens use to satirize this department?
1.verbal irony
2.understatement
3.paradox
4.parody

Dickens' humor permeates the very structure of his novels. Almost every person or event gets Dickens comic touch, and how much he will be allocated, depending on the nature of the phenomenon, from the role that plays one or another character in the overall structure of the narrative.

The comic element of the works of Charles Dickens uses the full range of shades, ranging from subtle irony and ending with caustic sarcasm, but in most cases Dickens  used irony.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.