What would you do if you had an extra $5 million to spend? that's what the city council has found in its budget, and it's turning into a big problem because each branch of our city services wants to have it for its own. last week, you recommended spending the budget surplus on street repair. one reader suggested expanding the library. i have a better suggestion: let's improve the zoo! which best represents the author's main argument? what would you do if you had an extra $5 million to spend? i have a better suggestion: let's improve the zoo! last week, you recommended spending the budget surplus on street repair. that's what the city council has found in its budget, and it's turning into a big problem because each branch of our city services wants to have it for its own.

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

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

Who dies in a duel because of his pride and his anger