Reread paragraphs 11 and 12 in the “Infamy” speech.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounded determination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God.
If “Hostilities exist” is the cause, what is the effect?

“…we will gain the inevitable triumph…”
“…our interests are in grave danger.”
“With confidence in our armed forces…”
“…with the unbounded determination of our people…”

What rhetorical device were the declaration's signers using when they said used strong, emotional words to describe the grievances against the king?

Reading critically involves reading to criticize reading many texts questioning a text talking about interests

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.