Which of the transition words shows the passage of
time?

Later, after, sometime, After, afterward, before, and so on.

Explanation:

The word later is the only one that specifically refer to time, it refers to a situation that is after the present one or the one you have been refering to.

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.