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?

a. irony

b. personification

c. metaphor

d. simile