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middle school?
Bibliography
[Titles marked with an asterisk were written for young
people.]
Cleator, P. E. Lost Languages. New York: the
John Day Company, 1961.
*Cottrell, Leonard. Reading the Past: The Story
of Deciphering Ancient Languages. New
York: Crowell-Collier Books, 1971.
- The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin
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It describes ancient languages.

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