4. What did you do to find the meaning of the difficult words you have encountered while reading the announcement?

Read the following excerpt from the play a raisin in the sun by lorraine hansberry: johnson (this usa woman who decided long ago to be enthusiastic about everything in life and she is inclined to wave her wrist vigorously at the heigh of her exclamatory comments.): hello there, yourself! h’you this evening, ruth? which assumption about johnson is most likely true based on the stage direction? a. her enthusiasm is used to mask her fear of public places

You've arrived at the cafeteria! there is a trap door in the pantry which has been covered up by an atlas. choose the square which shows greenland to open the door.

[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