Read these lines from the poem again: but the lost joys is past! let your tears in sorrow roll like the rain that ust to dapple up the old swimmin'–hole. what theme from the poem do these lines illustrate? a. the passage of time and growing old can people forget. b. the passage of time and growing old can make people happy. c. the passage of time and growing old can people remember. d. the passage of time and growing old can make people sad.

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?