The exhibit models, their accompanying text, and the overall layout of the rose center organized the principal contents of the solar system by objects of like properties, rather than as enumerations of planets and their moons. this decision landed pluto among the growing number of icy objects found beyond neptune, and left it unmentioned and out of view among our models for the rocky, terrestrial objects (mercury, venus, earth, and mars) and the gas giants (jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune). by this organization, we practically abandoned the concept of planet altogether. what is the main idea of this text?

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