Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet. Polonius: Well be with you, gentlemen!

Hamlet: Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too; at each ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.

What is the effect of Hamlet’s use of metaphor in this excerpt?

The metaphor reveals that Hamlet respects Polonius.
The metaphor shows that Hamlet wants Polonius’s help.
The metaphor portrays Polonius as foolish and weak.
The metaphor establishes Polonius as angry and mean.

Which of the following statements is true? a individual productivity is more important than group productivity b sacrifice isn’t necessary to achieve group goals c individual productivity is necessary for group productivity d waste isn’t a problem in reaching group goals

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 the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?