Highlight key images in the passage.
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.
ANSWER ON EDGENUTY:
*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.

—The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Answer: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

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.

The key images in the passage are;

  • 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.

What is a key images?

In a passage, key images serves as the main points that tell the mind of the author when the reader is going through the passage.

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