Question

The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.



Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby. 1925.

1.3 Identify an example of a simile from the first paragraph.

1.4 Identify an example of a metaphor from the first paragraph.

1.5 Identify an example of onomatopoeia from the second paragraph.

1.6 Identify another example of onomatopoeia from the second paragraph.

1.7 Identify an example of personification from the second paragraph.

1.8 Identify another example of personification from the second paragraph.

Answer 1

Explanation: gleaming white against the fresh grass outside

blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling

rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea

Step-by-step explanation:

''gleaming white against the fresh grass outside'' in describing the image of the windows that are considered as the subject of the sentence. It is describing how the look with adjectives such as gleaming and white and it is describing also how opposite is the grass outside that is fresh.

After that, we can see a description of the breeze and its actions, we can see that it blew curtains and how the breeze did it ''twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling''.

The third sentence here is describing the curtains that are making a shadow.: