Read the excerpt. which phrase is a context clue that can determine the meaning of the word demographic?

What does the word precocious mean in this sentence

What sound device is used in the following excerpt from how the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from philadelphia to medicine hat by carl sandburg

The goal of __ painters was not to make a photographic representation of a subject, but to capture the impression of a particular moment in time a) still artist b) realist c) impressionist