Question

This essay’s purported central fallacy is compared to its author’s false association of smell and virtue in Louis Menand’s (“LOO-wee muh-NAHND’s”) essay “Honest, Decent, Wrong.” This essay’s closing paragraph attacks Stuart Chase for using the supposed meaninglessness of abstract terms as a pretext for quietism. This essay uses the term “false limbs” for formations like “not un-,” as in “A (-5[1])not (10[1])unblack (-5[1])dog was chasing a not unsmall (10[1])rabbit.” (10[1])The phrase “a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account” appears in this essay’s parodic retranslation of a passage from Ecclesiastes. This essay attacks (10[1])the use (-5[1])of “dying metaphors” (10[2]-5[1])and includes (10[1]-5[1])the command (10[2]-5[1])“Never use a long word where (10[1])a short one will do” (10[2])among six rules (10[1])for avoiding bad (10[1])writing. For 10 points, name this 1946 essay about abuses of the title language by George Orwell. ■END■ (10[5]0[2])

ANSWER: Politics and the English Language
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