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Exit "families were being further torn asunder, and those left behind knew no more about their own fate than they did of the loved ones moving on." this passage from the text best represents which of the following literary devices used by the author? a. the motif of racial prejudice b. the dramatic irony of the audience knowing more than the characters c. the motif of displacement and separation d. the theme of conflict between those leaving and those being left behind

How are the themes from roosevelt's introduction to his address and the excerpt from king's letter similar? click here to read "letter from a birmingham jail."

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.