Can anyone help me pick what word to put in( ) this underneath. thx , if u can plz help add more sentences As the sun set over the trees , fingers of light and darkness reached out to grab the bird, but it was too fast and soared past like a thought that was soon forgotten. The orange-tinged sky illuminated it’s feathers like a halo and made you forget everything with its devastating beauty. The orange and brown leaves rustled as the bird glided passed them. The wind followed the creature's mantle angle by angle, by



Mantle= back of the bird

Which of these flaws does ulysses reveal while leaving the island after blinding the cyclops? a. a need for comfort b. a need for companionship c. a desire for glory d. a desire for riches

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.

4. how does the speaker's comparison of sinners to aninsect (paragraph 7) contribute to the central idea of thetext? o a it emphasizes the negative view god has ofsinners and how inconsequential they are to him.o b it stresses the connection that exists between allof god's creatures, whether they be human orinsect.o c it suggests that sinners can change for the better,as insects are known to go throughtransformations.o d it portrays sinners as being just as prevalentaround the earth as the wide variety of insects.