Questions on Rhetoric and Style

I did this on a piece of paper originally, so I apologize....

1. Orwell's thesis is that the English language has been declined to ruin. It was more implied than it was directly stated.
2. I actually found it effective. It's a relative topic that most people can understand and/or imagine vividly.
3. Paragraph 4-----"tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse." I didn't really understand the meaning behind it, so it wasn't entirely effective in my opinion. Paragraph 5 was filled with dying metaphors that effective whatsoever such as "Ring the changes on." Paragraph 12-----"presentable by a sheer humbug." It was kind of effective, considering that it referenced a well-known story, A Christmas Carol. I still didn't understand it as easily though, considering how simple my mind is. [I hope this is enough examples????]
4. For me, the paragraphs lost a lot of important details that could have helped me (and other readers) understand Orwell's thesis better.
5. As far as I know, the footnotes are there to help explain things that might not be well-known, but without getting off-topic.
6. Well, I found his work more credible through the many detailed sources he used and the information he pulled out from each of his sources. The details are what convinced me, not his reputation
7. His essay was very well organized, aside from that one HUGE paragraph made me hate my life. The generic order of the paper was beautiful, however. The essay flowed nicely, too.
8. The answer is similar as the first question: He wanted to inform everyone about the English language and the horrible state it's in. The purpose of the post-World War II historical context----he was practically just using it as an example as to the how low the English language stands.
9. The tone of Orwell's essay was sophisticated and relaxed, almost as if it was a script to a professor's lecture to his english class in college. It never really switched tones unless he was giving examples.
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• Dying metaphor: "tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse."
• Operators/Verbal False Limbs: "give an air of"
• Pretentious Diction: "scientific impartiality to biased judgments"