98 points

this question asks about your independent reading selection. you may use your reading selection to you answer the question.

compare and contrast your independent reading selection with one or two other selections you have read in this unit. support your response with at least two pieces of evidence from your independent reading selection. be sure to give the title and author of your selection. i chose the lord of the rings the hobbit and the other story is the story teller

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.

Outline (1) (2) i. (3) a. (4) 1. (5) 2. 3. choose the best answer from the choices below to match with (3) from the outline above. a. detail b. introduction c. subpoint 1 d. main point 1 select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

Wind blowing briskly leaves falling from the tree which best identifies the form of poetry represented by the stanza? 1.) free verse2.) iambic pentameter3.)sonnet4.) quatain