Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. STEVE

The two of us can go, Charlie.

(he turns to look back at the car)

It couldn’t be the meteor. A meteor couldn’t do this.

He and Charlie exchange a look then they start to walk away from the group.

What do the stage directions tell the reader about Steve’s and Charlie’s point of view?

They do not want to leave their homes and walk into town.
They suspect something strange may be going on.
They know what caused the flash of light but do not want to say it.
They are angry at the group of people for making them leave.

What type of literary device is demonstrated in this passage from the monkeys paw father and son

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.

In what way is victor frankenstein, instead of his creation, most clearly monstrous? a.he disconnects from his family and friends. b.he wishes that he could control the world with his monster. c.he believes that he can achieve success in the scientific world. d.he becomes angry at the monster, even though he created it.