Read this excerpt from “life without go-go boots” by barbara kingsolver and answer the question.

we lived in the country, in the middle of an alfalfa field; we had no immediate access to bobbie brooks sweaters. i went to school in the hand-me-downs of a cousin three years older.1 she had excellent fashion sense, but during the three-year lag her every sleek outfit turned to a pumpkin.2 … my black lace-up oxfords, which my parents perceived to have orthopedic value, carried their own weight in the spectacle.3 i suspected people noticed, and i knew it for sure on the day billy stamps announced to the lunch line, “make way for the bride of frankenstein.”4

which of the numbered sentences from the excerpt shows the most commentary and why?

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