Read the passage from an essay. what is the author’s purpose in this passage? my summer vacation every teenager looks forward to summer vacation. finals are over. you can just kick back and relax. you can read whatever you want, go wherever you want, watch tv all day, or surf the internet. the days stretch out, full of fun and laughs. every teenager looks forward to summer vacation. every teenager—except me. my summers are awful. for as long back as i can remember, this has been the one steady fact of my life. summer vacations are awful. it’s a fact, just as we say earth revolves around the sun and the sun sets in the west. each year brought some new horror. it would always start the same way, too. dad would gather us around the dinner table and give us this year’s destination. we couldn’t refuse. to dad, it was sacred family time. so we smiled and looked excited. then we would all pile into the car. just the four of us—dad, mom, my sister, and me—would have been somewhat bearable. but for my dad, the summer trip was not just family time, but extended family time. so my grandmother, my aunt, and her three kids would also pile into our poor little car. it was a survival of the fittest, played out without fail every summer. the winner got the window seat. grandma always got one. my little cousins pushed and jostled to get the other. because i was the oldest among five cousins, i never got the sacred window seat. janice, mikey, and ben were as awful as summer itself. to inform about the disadvantages of taking a summer trip to convince the reader that taking summer trips is harmful to entertain the reader by describing the author’s bad road trips to express the author’s frustration about being the oldest cousin

They also make slight swaying movements to mimic leaves and grass moved by the wind. based on the text, to mimic is most likely which of the following? avoid copy make mock

Read the passage from 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 disobedience in her mind. she knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of napoleon. but still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. it was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of jones's gun. such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. what was most likely orwell’s purpose for writing this passage? to show that clover is more sensitive to violence than the others to remind readers of major's speech and the original rebellion to present napoleon as a cruel leader unworthy of the animals’ support to represent misled followers and their dashed hopes for better lives

Which pair of words has similar denotation but different connotations?