Which best identifies a counterclaim in "improve the zoo! "? a. i have a better suggestion: let's improve the zoo! b. central city zoo is small and outdated. c. if they could speak, they would plead for a better life. it is wrong not to give them one. d. some may think that the extra money should be spent on things that are more important, which usually means more necessary to humans.

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 war does jonas have a memory about? in the giver.

What is a word that is stronger than "beautiful"