At the beginning of the story, we meet the narrator, who tells the tale of captain ahab and the crew of his ship, the pequod. captain ahab soon reveals the purpose of this voyage, which is to hunt down a white whale that injured him. before long, the whale is sighted. as he tries unsuccessfully to capture the whale, ahab is killed. those who follow ahab meet the same fate, and the pequod is destroyed. the conflict has been resolved and order restored — at the expense of the pequod, its crew, and its captain. at the end of the novel, the narrator explains how he lived to tell the tale. which sentence describes the falling action of the story?

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.