Booksnap from : The Fun They Had By Isaac Asimov
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The children are used to a world where everything is learnt through a computer
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These adjectives tell us that the book is really old
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This sentence uses irony, or a double or hidden meaning. The book is presented as something strange and unusual, but it is actually something we are familiar with, because we live in a different time to the children in the story. The difference between what they see and understand and what we see and understand creates irony.
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