3. What is the author's main purpose in the text?
A. to encourage people to get vaccinated for the influenza virus to avoid the
symptoms
B. to show how the immune system actually does more damage than the virus
itself
C. to explain to people that the worse they feel during the flu, the faster they're
healing
D. to explain why people feel so horrible when they're infected with the influenza
virus
I

After reading this excerpt, darren makes a text-to-text connection. which example is a text-to-text connection?

Jackson is a very smart little boy he can count to twenty and is only two years old. complete, run on sentence or comma splice

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