“my dear cousin, i didn't do it, and i can't it. i would, if i could. if low-minded, brutal people will act like themselves, what am i to do? … there would be no use in interfering; there is no law that amounts to anything practically, for such a case. … (p 187) the excerpt above best demonstrates southern empathy rationalization of slavery northern racism questionable christianity

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 the first line of each stanza, the author follows the pattern of a noun followed by a pair of adjectives. what is the purpose of this pattern?

Amanda bought a prom dress which she considered the most beautiful dress ever made. adjective clause: word(s) modified: