What does the phrase "to the manor born" mean, as seen in the final paragraph of this selection?
a) it refers to the wealth and financial abundance that young southerners were brought into since birth.
b) it refers to the ideas of dignity and self-respect that young southerners had experienced as customary.
c) it refers to the size of the plantation each southern person came into possessing upon reaching maturity.
d) it refers to the great depression and the influence it had on all southerners during this time.

Danny went for a long bike ride he covered at least forty miles

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.

Similarities between speaker’s delivery and active listening?