Orwell uses irony in the excerpt in the sense that the text shows that the animals expected a different outcome than the reality they are facing, option C.
<h3>What is irony?</h3>
A simple definition of irony would be a situation in which the result or outcome is not what was initially expected. That is what we have in the excerpt from "Animal Farm," by George Orwell.
The animals expected a good and easy life, just as promised by the pig Snowball. They have worked really hard to build the windmill that would bring changes to the farm, but no reward has been given to them. As a matter of fact, another pig, Napoleon, tells them that they should work even harder.
With the information above in mind, we can choose option C as the correct answer.
The missing excerpt to answer this question is the following:
But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of animalism. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
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