Which of the following statements about document pages is true?
a. good design dictates that recto pages always be blank to avoid the "overdone" look.
b. the page on the left-hand side of a document is the verso page, while the right-hand page is the recto page.
c. recto pages are always even-numbered pages, while verso pages are always odd-numbered pages.
d. the page on the right-hand side is the verso page, while the page on the left-hand side is the recto page.

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