Which line creates a bright and spooky tone? fog rolled thickly over the fields, shrouding them in the gray and brown colors of winter. light bounced across the water, shimmering on the surface like jewels. the house creaked and groaned like an old woman trailing a history of grief. the golden red leaves shimmered in the light wind, and lit the edges of the cold day.

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.

Which of these sentences uses parallel structure

Which characteristic of james baldwin’s “notes of a native son” qualify as a work of literary nonfiction