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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.

Questionlect the correct text in the passageshich sentence is a compound sentence? time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differencescircumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke.in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of thproverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand howbe applied to their own lives.submit

Read the sentence from the war of the worlds. i turned, and as i did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion. which option is the accurate synonym of the word concussion as it is used in the sentence? explosion disruption crash interruption