18) (1) She had received a gift certificate for the Grand Opening of the salon located in a run-down section of Congress Avenue in
South Austin, or Old Austin. (2) Tattoo artists, musicians, and retired people lived in South Austin, while the tech professionals
flocked to the north so an upscale salon was an anomaly among the shops in South Austin. (3) While she normally didn't
cover retail or personal services, a special section features story was already forming in her mind. (4) On Grand Opening Night
at the salon, the reporter brought out her reporter's notebook and began interviewing the owner.
Which sentence in the paragraph is a run-on?
A)
Sentence 1
B)
Sentence 2
Sentence 3
D)
Sentence 4

Read the passage below and answer the question. marcus had a reputation for being craven. no one had ever seen him do a single brave thing. using context clues, how would you define the word craven in the passage? intense courageous cowardly thoughtful

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 is the best paraphrase of the passage? a.)it’s always cloudy where the men of winter live. b.)it’s always misty where the men of winter live. c.)it’s always dark where the men of winter live. d.)it’s always sunny where the men of winter live. read the passage from the odyssey - elpenor. by night our ship ran onward toward the ocean's bourne, the realm and region of the men of winter, hidden in mist and cloud. never the flaming eye of helios lights on those men at morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven; ruinous night being rove over those wretches.