The answer is: a)
The central idea refers to what the text is mainly about.
<span>"Many a singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven amid execration and abuse from the platform." Is the sentence that really shows mockery the best. While the author was praising him for what he was doing in the beginning it ends with such a mocking tone it changes the way you look at the rest of the reading.</span>
Both of the poem and the illustration is A.eyes and B. Stars
1.) From 1931 to 1973, the Empire state building was the tallest building in the world, a title now claimed by Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
2.) The Eiffel Tower was named in honor of its architect, Gustave Eiffel, who lived from 1832 to 1923.