Answer:
Tom and Nick stopped at the Valley of Ashes to met Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress.
Nick feels that he'd been forced to meet her and felt that Tom hadn't even told him beforehand or given him any choice to meet her.
Explanation:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" revolves around the story of Jay Gatsby and his lost American Dream. The novel also focuses on the themes of wealth, social class, love, appearance, and reality, etc. through the characters.
In Chapter 2, Nick recalls how Tom<em> "literally forced"</em> him to met Myrtle Wilson, his mistress. Tom felt that Tom's approach of his<em> "company (is) bordered on violence" </em>and that Tom had the<em> "supercilious assumption [...] that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do."</em> This shows how Nick was unprepared and even maybe felt coerced to meet the woman, despite not expressing any desire to be acquainted with her.
Answer:
Dillon lit up like a firefly when Dad walked in the door.
Explanation:
The sentence is a simile (a comparison made using the words like or as), which is a type of figurative language. Dillon's actions are being compared to a firefly to show that she is excited.
Answer:
1.A day on Venus is longer than a year
2.Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being further away from the Sun
3.Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Venus spins clockwise on its axis
4.Venus is the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon
5.Venus has 90 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth
6.Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty
7.Venus was the first planet to have its motions plotted across the sky, as early as the second millennium BC
8.We tend to say ‘Venusian’ not ‘Venerian’
Answer:
C
Explanation:
[transitive, intransitive] to be or go around the edge of something skirt something They followed the road that skirted the lake. They skirted the forest and emerged on to a path. skirt around/round something I skirted around the field and crossed the bridge.
Answer:
One common characteristic of all tyrants is that they always find a reason to continue ruling.
Explanation:
Tyrannies always find a reason for not giving the power to other rulers, their pretext is that no one can do the job as well as they do.
Tyrannies always blame foreign countries or parts of their own societies for their problems.
In the case of Nazi Germany, Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany´s economic problems, once he had German Jews in ruin, he continued with the Jews in other countries, this ended in 2nd World War.
In Cuba, Castro blamed the United States for his poor economy, although he could never solve Cuba´s problems, he keft power till the end.
