Read this excerpt from a story:
i don't know why everyone was so happy when we reached the top of the mountain. it only took us four hours to hike up there. and i'm still not sure why everyone was amazed as we looked down. i mean, it was only the most
spectacular view i'd ever seen in my life.
which statement best describes the narrator's point of view in this excerpt?

a. he was sorry he agreed to the hike up the mountain.

b. he was in a state of panic because he was up so high.

c. he was in awe of what he saw from the top of the mountain.

d. he was bored by everything that happened on the hike.

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