Narrative Writing: Removing Irrelevant Details paragraph below has one sentence that is not relevant to the narrative. Cross out that sentence to strengthen the paragraph.1. Hesitantly, I walked onto the stage holding my violin, blinking nervously in the bright lights as the audience clapped politely. Why had I ever agreed to perform in front of the whole school? I walked across the stage and took my place behind the music stand. I started playing the violin when I was seven. After taking a deep breath to calm my nerves, I started to play. As the music poured forth, I forgot my fears and focused only on reading the notes. By the end of the song, I was no longer afraid. I beamed with pride as the audience applauded and gave me a standing ovation.

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.