Which of the following quotes from the passage is evidence of the central idea? A. The genre of music known as the blues originated in the American South at the beginning of the twentieth century.

B. In 1933, the Library of Congress sent John A. Lomax and his son Alan across the country to record folk songs, including blues.

C. The Lomax collection at the American Folklife Center is an invaluable historical record of music from many cultural groups.

D. Blues music is an enduring tribute to the collective strength of spirit required to turn such suffering into art.

The balance includes both the fees for service and the shipping charges. is this sentence incomplete or complete?

How dose religion today compared to the puritans idea of religion

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