"over the past ten years more than two dozen athletes have died from the medical condition known as heatstroke."

"a promising new product hopes to end the, all too common, heatstroke trend."
what inference can you make from the comparison of these two sentences?
a) the author is a medical doctor or nurse.
b) the author is informed and concerned about heatstroke.
c) the author knows an athlete who has died from heatstroke.
d) the author works for the company that makes thermometer pills.

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