If you were writing an essay on the positives and negatives of the rise of social media, which detail sentence below would most logically fit into your essay? a) the internet is a wonderful place in which to do research because so much information is available just a few clicks away! b) one of the most frustrating events of the modern age is coming home to find out that your wireless internet is down or disconnected. c) an old-fashioned, hand-written letter can mean so much to a parent if you just take the time to sit down and write one from the heart. d) rather than making people more shallow, social media has politically and personally empowered many people who've never had a public voice before.

The novel begins with a flashback. what do you think is its purpose? what do you learn about the narrator?

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demons that is dreaming which of these poetic devices is used here?

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.