Practice Read the following debate topics, then make up four or five of your own. Note
that the statements are written in the affirmative rather than the negative. For
instance, “Smoking should be banned in restaurants” rather than “People should
not be allowed to smoke in restaurants."
1. Smoking should be banned in restaurants.
2. Students who are tardy should stay after school.
3. Initiation rituals should be banned from fraternities.
4. All schools should go to a year-round plan.
5. Teachers should dismiss disruptive students from the la

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.