Read the excerpt from judith ortiz cofer’s poem “el olvido.” a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls, a forgetting place where she fears you will die of loneliness and exposure. jesús, maría, y josé, she says, el olvido is a dangerous thing. which strategy would be most in enhancing the reader’s comprehension of the poem? skimming the lines for familiar words establishing the meaning of words in english and spanish breaking the lines into shorter phrases rewriting each line by hand.

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.

What is the difference between theme and universal theme? theme refers to the central insight revealed through an american story, while universal theme refers to a theme revealed through a story of foreign origin. theme refers to a central message that applies to anyone, anywhere, while universal theme is particular to a certain individual, historical context, or culture. theme refers to the central insight revealed through a story, while universal theme refers to a theme that applies to anyone, anywhere. theme and universal theme are two terms that have the same definition.

“generally, however, the term robot refers to any machine that is able to perform a complex task on its own, but whose actions or tasks are controlled by human programming.”