Read the excerpt from the dark game by paul janeczko.
to introduce the topic, janeczko includes
relevant historical facts.
quotations from military sources
statistics from code breakers.
surprising personal anecdotes.
as a result of the cut cables, germany lost its most secure
long-distance communications system. the germans now
had to rely on radio transmissions from their powerful
wireless station at nauen, a few miles from berlin. which
was exactly what the british military knew they would have
to do. and once the germans began sending wireless
messages, mi8, the british code breakers, began plucking
them from the air. of course, all german correspondence
was sent in a complicated cipher system, so that was when
the hard work began for the code breakers of mi8.

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