Read the passage.

there i was clinging to the side of the cliff. just when i thought things couldn’t get worse, i heard a familiar cawing sound. i looked up to see a suspicious seagull circling overhead. yep, you guessed it. kerplop!

the underline sentence was added while revising the draft. which revision was done to the paragraph?

a a detail was added to create urgency to the conflict.

b a detail was added to connect a new event to the conflict.

c a detail was added to establish facts basic to the conflict.

d a detail was added to clarify the resolution of the conflict.

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What does vexed mean as it is used in the second stanza of "the second coming"?

What is the central idea of “the light of gandhi’s lamp”? how does the central idea emerge and develop over the course of the passage? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.

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