Answer:
The literary technique this stanza demonstrates is <em>metaphor</em>
The correct answer for this question is "C. There are silhouettes of four people burned into the side of the house. "
Here are the following choices:
A. Mrs. McClellan likes to listen to poetry in the evenings.
<span>B. The stove prepares a breakfast that goes uneaten.
</span><span>C. There are silhouettes of four people burned into the side of the house.
</span><span>D. The house carefully keeps itself clean and protects itself from harm. </span>
A dystopian society often refers to a totalitarian one (there is one tyrant ruler), where life isn't so great for the majority of the population. This proves true in chapter 8, because Napoleon is clearly becoming a more and more powerful individual (seen by his manipulation on several accounts: altering the commandments, sending Squealer to distribute false statistics, etc.), which simply reinforces the unpleasant life on the farm (the animals are starving even though they're convinced of the opposite).
