When the bank on the other side of the draw began to throw a narrow shelf of shadow, we knew we ought to be starting homeward; QUICK 20 MINS

Which type of figurative language is used in this passage from My Antonia?

metaphor

simile

imagery

precise adjectives

Select the correct answer to which literary movement did ambrose bierce belong? a. romanticism b. realism c. naturalism d. neoclassicism

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.

Based on this excerpt, the reader is able to conclude that turner feels about his friendship with lizzie.