Identify five pieces of literature (of any genre) and place them on a scale from most to least in terms of the amount of research you would need to do on the cultural/historical background. Why would one work need the least research for you to read it meaningfully? Why would another need the most such background information? Why would the others be in the middle?

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

There are six red marbles 4 blue marbles and 15 green marbles in a jar if you reach in and randomly draw one what is the probability that it will choose a red marble

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