Love leads me many times beneath the shade of ladies fair, whose necks are beauteous hills, and whiter far than flower of any grass; and one there cometh, clothed in robes of green, who in my heart dwells, as strength dwells in rock, and among others seems as fairest lady. and when i glance upon this gentle lady, whose brightness scatters every dusky shade, her light so smites my heart it turns to rock; i roam, as strangled, all among the hills, till i revive and am with love more green than ever yet was spring or freshest grass. this excerpt is an example of what type of poem? a. sonnet b. ballad c. haiku d. sestina

In addition to academic and extracurricular achievements in school, i am an involved member of my community. i volunteer at the local animal shelter every saturday morning, and i build houses for a nonprofit organization a few times a year with my family. which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used here? a. inductive logic b. ethos c. parallelism d. text structure

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.

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