An author may describe a character by telling what he does, what he says, how he looks, or how others react to him. True or False

Corrie took over for Betsie in the watch shop after Betsie got sick.
True or False

Betsie enjoyed bookkeeping.
True or False

Betsie took over the household chores.
True or False

The sisters disliked their new roles in the household.
True or False

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

Which sentence contains a gerund? sally is fishing on the lake with her father and brothers.marcus is supposed to be joining the discussion later today.my cat was not interested in the dangling string.her chorus director does not appreciate angela's fidgeting.

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.