Read the excerpt from the great gatsby.
twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out
into the most domesticated body of salt water in the western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of long island sound.
they were not perfect ovals-like the egg in the columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end-but their
physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. to the wingless a more
arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
i lived at west egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre
and not a little sinister contrast between them.
the use of words such as "fashionable," "superficial," "bizarre," and "sinister" provide
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Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.
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Active reading to kill a mockingbird, twelve through twenty-one during the trial, atticus questions four witnesses. as you read, complete the chart below by noting the key information given by each witness during questioning. also note how each witness behaves on the stand, commenting on the general impression the witness makes. answer for the following characters: the sheriff, bob ewell, miss ewell, and tom robinson.
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English, 22.06.2019 08:00
Which details from the excerpt best indicate that the tomb is a frightening place ?
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English, 22.06.2019 10:40
Which of these excerpts from âa white heronâ is an example of personification
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Read the excerpt from the great gatsby.
twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, id...
twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, id...
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