Pushing the boundaries of language as a means of depicting reality in this essay about the Nacirema appear to be sharply defined, yet, upon closer examination of the text, we find that the author takes us through the looking glass and into a twilight zone where words can be spelled backwards to reveal their true meaning and routine activities take on the distorted aura of the grotesque. (PLEASE DONT SEND ME A LINK I CAN'T OPEN)

a) Verbal irony is the use of words to suggest an opposite meaning. What are the different ways in which Miner employs verbal irony?

b) Express the effect of these uses of verbal irony on you as you read the text.

c) Situational irony is when circumstances run contrary to expectations. Explain how situational irony is brought into play by the author.

d) What is the effect of his usage of situational irony on you the reader?

e) Examine how Miner uses verbal and situational irony to depict a primitive tribe and its extreme cultural practices, which we see as other due to their extreme cultural practices.

f) What does he do in the text to designate the Nacirema as other?

g) How does he reveal to us that they are not entirely unfamiliar?

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Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

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