What is the most likely meaning of the metaphor in the following sentence? My grandpa's car was a dinosaur, yet each time it broke down, he spent
hours fixing it up again.
O A. The metaphor comparing Grandpa to a dinosaur suggests that
Grandpa is unable to work.
B. The metaphor comparing the car to a dinosaur suggests that the
car is old.
O C. The metaphor comparing the car to a dinosaur suggests that the
car is large.
O D. The metaphor comparing Grandpa to a dinosaur suggests that
Grandpa is not practical.
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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.

Myths often function as a connection to the , or the customs and beliefs, of a group of people.