Select the word that best fits the definition: Economic activity characterized by fluctuating levels of growth and decline a. job security b. interest rate c. economy d. business cycle

Which revision fixes the mistake in parallel structure in this sentence? ellie always enjoys performing in plays more than to go to the movies. a. ellie always enjoys to perform in plays more than going to the movies. b. ellie always enjoys to perform more in plays than going to the movies. c. ellie always enjoys to perform in plays more than the movies. d. ellie always enjoys performing in plays more than going to the movies.

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.

(the black cat poem) where does the writer fail to support her points with evidence? what evidence from the story would you suggest adding to support these points?