Question

What was the speaker's intention when using figurative language in this sentence?
It is not quite the story of the wolf and the lamb. I will tell you why—because Germany expected to find a lamb and found a lion.

to assure the audience that England will defeat Germany in the war

to prove to the audience that England was not the cause of the war

to gain the sympathy of the English citizens and other nations

to prove that Germany was a major threat to England