How does the section of background information about Mary (the second and third paragraphs) most strongly contribute to the text as a whole? The section of background information contributes to the controversial focus of the text.
The section of background information provides context for why Mary acted as she did once she reached adulthood.
The section of background information paints a complete picture of the fictional characters of Mary and William.
The section of background information allows the author to get all the necessary, but boring, information about Mary out of the way before moving on to more
interesting things.
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What form would best be classified as postmodern

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.

30 points and brainliest what can you surmise about keats’s theories of art by reading “ode on a grecian urn”? no multiple choice