HELP HURRY Read the following passage. What is the speaker's tone in this passage (consider
his apparent feelings about young children having freedom)?
You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is loaded with sweet
wine and fruit some poisoned, some not?-you will say to him, "Choose freely, my
little child! It is so good for you to have freedom of choice; it forms your character-
your individuality! If you take the wrong cup or the wrong berry, you will die before
the day is over, but you will have acquired the dignity of a free child."
sincere/honest
sarcastic/mocking
joyful/rejoicing

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