Which statement best explains how lyric poetry became widespread in English literature? A.
The earliest English lyric poems were historical ballads that court writers composed to honor heroes.
B.
In the sixteenth century, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare popularized lyric poetry in sonnet form.
C.
Romantic poets such as Wordsworth created the first lyric poems in English by translating Sappho's works.
D.
Geoffrey Chaucer's sonnets of the fourteenth century introduced lyric elements such as a regular rhyme and meter.

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