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Which statement best explains why Orwell used fable, allegory, and satire to write Animal Farm?

He did not want his readers to take the story too seriously and believed that using animals would achieve this purpose.

He was afraid that British readers would be offended if he mentioned the Soviet Union specifically, so he chose to write an allegory.

He wanted to portray the Soviet Union as an oppressive, totalitarian regime, and he wanted to make the connections clear and obvious.

He wanted to reach a wider audience by addressing the themes of oppression, suffering, and injustice without explicitly referring to current events.

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Answer:D). He wanted to reach a wider audience by addressing the themes of oppression, suffering, and injustice without explicitly referring to current events.

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D). He wanted to reach a wider audience by addressing the themes of oppression, suffering, and injustice without explicitly referring to current events.

Step-by-step explanation:

Orwell writes 'Animal Farm' as a fable and employs several literary devices like allegory and satire to present the commentary on communism and display the rise of corruption, power abuse, and violence during the Russian revolution to the wider audience. The animal characters and exaggerated descriptions using irony, humor, etc. help him in highlighting and communicating the themes of suffering, oppression, and inequity to the readers and aware them about the negative aspect of the revolution. Thus, option D is the correct answer.

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