Question

Advertisements everywhere, I haven’t time to think1

without some local merchant selling me the kitchen sink. 2

All along my childhood, it’s been exceedingly bad— 3
from my diapers to my schoolbooks, there’s always been an ad. 4

Every show is brought to me by business courtesy; 5
every team I’ve been on has been sponsored for a fee. 6

Doesn’t matter what it is, if I’m their demographic, 7
they add MARSHMALLOWS! ‘til I think that I just have to have it. 8

I sing jingles when I read – their persistence is extreme! 9
I find ignoring messages to be a rough routine. 10

From getting up to lying down, the advertisements play, 11
but I’ve learned to lower volume and just to walk away. 12

Future kids will probably find that our great civilization13
was easily told that they’d be sold the world’s next great sensation, 14

so kids like me have got to see that most ads are promotion15
designed to throw a lasso over human beings’ emotion, 16

but happiness cannot be found in catalogs or stores, 17
and the pleasure that they’re marketing may already be yours. 18
In line 8 MARSHMALLOWS! refers to
A) food items.
B) new gimmicks.
C) sales prices.
D) special discounts.

Answer 1

B : new gimmicks

Answer 2

B) new gimmicks.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this poem, the author talks about advertising, and how relentless it can be. He talks about how advertisers are able to find absolutely anyone that is in their target demographic in order to try to sell to him or her. He also describes how, in order to entice these people, advertisers add "marshmallows." In this case, marshmallows simply refers to the many new gimmicks that advertisers come up with in order to persuade potential buyers.