What is the theme in this passage? A king wished for the power to turn anything he touched into gold. At last, his wish was granted! Wanting to celebrate, he ran to his wife. "My queen," he said, hugging her, "I have such great news!" But she was dead -- turned to gold.

After reading the mini-story, what is the theme of this short passage? Your answer should be in sentence form with punctuation and capitalization.

Is my mailman likes to read peoples mail. all mailmen like to read peoples mail an example for hasty generalization

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 this example, what does the author use to describe laurie