The ants and the grasshoppers

from aesop’s fables

the ants and the grasshoppers lived together in the great field. the ants were busy all the time gathering a store of grain to lay by for winter use. when the frost came, it put an end to the work of the ants and the chirping and merrymaking of the grasshoppers. but one fine winter's day, when the ants were employed in spreading their grain in the sun to dry, a grasshopper chanced to pass by.
"good day to you, kind neighbor," said she; "will you not lend me a little food? i will certainly pay you before this time next year."

this passage demonstrates what point of view?
a) first person
b) second person
c) third person limited
d) third person omniscient

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant