In our modern world, advertising plays a major role in our daily lives: it influences the decisions we make about our clothing, our food, and our cars. 2many shoppers insist on expensive name brand clothing, even if the quality is not better than the bargain priced items. 3because of advertising, children as young as two years old recognize and sing along with fast food melodies and beg parents for a particular brand of sweetened cereal. 4studies show that both men and women are greatly influenced by prime time commercials featuring automobiles.
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in this paragraph, which sentence states the thesis?
a) sentence 1
b) sentence 2
c) sentence 3
d) sentence 4

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