What is a true statement about a shakespearean sonnet?

a. the third quatrain shows a change in mood from the first two quatrains.

b. the final couplet reverses the ideas of the three quatrains.

c. the final couplet restates the main idea of the poem.

d. the third quatrain shows a reversal of thought from the first two quatrains.

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.

Which of the following story descriptions most directly shares themes with the passage above

In which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject