Read this excerpt from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. Deadly flu bugs and mad cow disease are nothing new. Look back in time to see when they first appeared. What organizational information about the text does the reader learn from this passage? The text is organized around important dates that relate to disease. The text is organized around data about how bugs relate to disease. The text is organized around data about how cows relate to disease. The text is organized around important breakthroughs that relate to disease.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile