WILL GIVE BRAINLIST - Create an editorial that uses loaded language to persuade readers of an opinion or belief with strong, sensationalistic vocabulary.
Be sure to include each feature of the form:
a. expressing an opinion that attempts to recruit readers into their own belief
b. using strongly connotative, loaded language in a consistent way
c. using grammar, tone, and register that suggests sensationalism

Introduction to making a difference: it’s our world, too

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.

This excerpt is repeated several times. what effect does this repetition have on the epic