Who are two well known lesser gods?

In ralph ellison’s “the black ball” the narrator of the story stretches the truth or lies several times what do you think it is his motivation for being so untruthful

"dogs make wonderful pets because they us stay happy and healthy"the topic sentence is "dogs make wonderful pets" i need writing a sentence that is unrelated to the topic and can be eliminated.

[v]ast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?