3.
PART A: Which of the following best describes the mood of paragraph 3 and its significance.
calm, like Maman-Nainaine's acceptance of when the figs will grow
dreary, like the hot and gloomy weather described in this section
anxious, reflecting Babette's impatience as she repeatedly checks the garden for
signs of the figs
sad, reflecting Babette's belief that she will never see the figs grow and will
never visit her family
(Ripe figs)

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.

Identity the three types of language

Which traits are strongest in your persuasive essay: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, or conventions?