A) by referring to how farmers “died on” and are “dying on” the land, the author conveys sympathy toward the tenant farmers for being displaced. b) by beginning several sentences with “we”, the author uses parallelism to express a formal and objective tone that avoids sentimentality. c) by beginning the excerpt with the word “sure,” the author articulates a fundamental truth that most reasonable people can agree with. d) by using a metaphor to compare ownership to piece of paper, the author indicate that the land should really belong to the farmers.

the excerpt from chapter 2 of "animal farm", by george orwell that is an example of foreshadowing is "these three (snowball, napoleon, and squealer) had elaborated old major's teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave the name of animalism." animal farm is an allegory of how czarist russia developed into communist russia with all its corruption. old major's teachings represent marx's theories turned into communism, animalism, by the three pigs. this foreshadows the oppression and corruption that will follow this revolt.

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