Read the excerpt from the great gatsby. then answer the question that follows. 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-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. which figurative language device is not present in these lines? alliteration allusion metaphor simile