Which statement shows the central idea of the original passage?
Review the rewording of the passage to identify what is
most important
Teens enjoyed listening to their radios using headphones,
which also kept their music from bothering anyone else.
-"Music Gets Personal"
O Teens bothered others by using headphones
plugged into their radios.
O Teens used headphones so that they could hear the
music better.
O Teens enjoyed listening to their radios using
headphones, which also kept their music from
bothering anyone else.
O Teens listened to their music without disturbing
others.

In concrete mixers what seems to be the speakers feeling about the concrete mixers

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.

What is a generalization? a. a series of events that make up what happens in a story b. hints or clues that tell you what is going to happen in a story c. the final resolution or event that ties up loose ends in a story d. a simple statement about something complicated