What would be the best way to show people how the quality of the river’s water has improved since the nineteenth century?
a) read an excerpt from one of edmund spenser’s poems about the beauty of the river
b) provide graphs that show that millions of citizens use the river for recreation every day
c) compare pictures of the river during the nineteenth century with pictures of the river today
d) describe the increase in fish in the river since the clean-up efforts in the twentieth century

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?