Click on the box to choose the figure of speech demonstrated in lines 72-76 below.
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
His had been quaffedº too quickly, and he found
The dregs were wormwood, but he filled again,
And from a purer fount, on holier ground,
And deemed its spring perpetual; but in vain!

Me ! one reader of sorrentino's story said, "it reminded me that everyone can have a different perspective and a different response to the same event, and that response can change over time." in at least two hundred words, explain what you think this means.

When a monster in a story does not have the ability to communicate, what is the most likely result?

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.