Select the choice that best describes the author's use of figurative language in the sentence below.
"i felt like a quickly melting snowman under the glare of all those watching eyes."
a. the author uses personification to give a snowman human feelings.
b. the author uses a metaphor to compare being on a stage to being a snowman.
c. the author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting.
d. the author uses a metaphor to compare the cool feeling of standing on stage to snow.

Which type of poetry often begins by announcing the subject and asking a muse for ? a. epic poetry b. dramatic poetry c. sunnets d. ballads

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

Which of the following story descriptions most directly shares themes with the passage above