One reason people lie is to achieve personal power achieving personal power is helpful for someone who pretends to be more confident than he really is for example one of my friends threw a party at his house last month he asked me to come to his party and bring a date however i didn’t have a girlfriend one of my other friends who had a date to go to the party with asked me about my date i didnt want to be embarrassed so i claimed that i had a lot of work to do i said i could easily find a date even better than his if I wanted to i also told him that his date was ugly i achieved power to help me feel confident however i embarrassed my friend and his date although this lie helped me at the time since then it has made me look down on myself Rewrite the paragraph above using correct punctuation and capitalization.

Which statement best describes the use of satire in this passage? read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or parody is used to illustrate the impact of stalin's purge. ridicule is used to show the gullibility of the russian citizens. reversal is used to show how clover, representing the people, has changed ideals. personification is used to show the reader stalin's thoughts and feelings