What do we learn about the character Thompson from this
passage of "The Invalid's
Story"?
Sec. 26: "It ain't no use. We
can't buck agin him. He just
utilizes everything we put up
to modify him with, and gives
it his own flavor and plays it
back on us. Why, Cap., don't
you know, it's as much as a
hundred times worse in there
now than it was...'
A. We learn that Thompson speaks with
proper, formal English.
B. We see that Thompson is not a
religious person.
C. We learn that Thompson is a talkative
person.

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.