Select the answer that best describes the theme of “ you, m’am”
a. crime doesn’t pay.
b. if you do terrible things, you will get caught.
c. never steal, especially from mrs. jones.
d. it’s important to respect yourself and to take responsibility for your actions.

Write a précis of "from 'on the duty of civil disobedience'" paragraph 1 by henry david thoreau.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

In at least 150 words, discuss the comparison described in the figurative language and how the connotative language reinforces the symbol. be sure to include a definition if your terms