You cannot know
 And should not bother
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother

In this verse the poet uses

Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of 

Pick out the odd item 

That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____

One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy