Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier? a. the four men eating lunch talked quietly in the corner. b. they saw a fence made of barbed wire behind the house. c. mary watched nearly two hundred movies last year. d. looking toward the south, a funnel cloud stirred up the dust.

Me determine which are quote or paraphrase.

This poem describes a train as if it were a horse. what literacy device does the poet use in this poem?

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.