Read the excerpt from part 1 of "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." a man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. the man’s hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. a rope closely encircled his neck. which is the most reasonable prediction? the man will remain standing in this location. the man will face execution shortly. the man will ask to be cut loose. the man will become increasingly uncomfortable.

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.

Kyle and his brother have a marble set of the marbles 12 are blue this represent 50 over a hundred of all the marbles what decimal is equivalent to 50 / 100

What is the best statement about carl sandburg poetry?