Marie Devers

When I think about my destiny, that cloudy cool mirage,1
The options and the chances overlap in a collage.2

I sometimes spend an afternoon in dreams of come what may,3
A changeable amusement, better than any matinee.4

Ambitious as I am, there is so much that I foresee,5
I’m writing seven million drafts of my biography.6

Youth is like a blindfold to the life I’ve yet to meet,7
I can’t make out the future with my life so incomplete.8
Why does the author call her destiny that cloudy cool mirage?
A) because the author needed a word that would rhyme with "collage"
B) because the author wanted to use a simile so the passage would seem more "poetic"
C) because the author feels that her future is hazy, uncertain, and slightly unreal
D) because the author is certain that her future is going to be bright and positive

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

What is hamlet pondering at the beginning of act 3?

Which best describes the underlined words in the sentence? in the evening, i often sit and gaze up at the stars. a. complete predicate b. compound verb c. simple predicate