Please help :( Which rhetorical device does the letter writer use in
this paragraph?
- allusion
- referencing a major claim
- referencing a counterargument
- repetition

Does anyone read this story in 9th grade "when mr. pirzada came to dine"

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.

Which event occurred in the nearly two-year time span between act 3 and act4 of the tragedy of julius caesar?