When you write a class assignment, do you consider the values and beliefs of
the teacher? do you consider what arguments and what kinds of support will be
most persuasive? do you choose words and make stylistic choices to have the
most persuasive effect on your teacher? how would you write differently for
another audience, such as your best friend or a brother or sister?

Read this sentence from "the wife's lament

Write 3 parallel sentences about an animal of your choice

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.