Which sentence from the story initiates the action?
Among the guests was a young lawyer, a young man of five-and-
twenty.
The banker who was younger and more nervous in those days was
OB) suddenly carried away by excitement; he struck the table with his fist
and shouted at the young man.
OC) And this wild, senseless bet was carrie
The banker, spoilt and frivolous, with millions beyond his reckoning,
was delighted at the bet.

Based solely on their titles, which contemporary novel most likely contains a mythological element that is also found in “cruel tribute? ”

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 characteristics show passage 3 to be poetry?