The word "romanticism" has little to do with the popular idea of romance. Romanticism is a movement in literature and the arts. It began in early nineteenth century Europe. Nature is the primary focus in romanticism. Another key element of this movement was imagination. Romanticism was also about the freedom to express personal emotion. Most importantly, it allowed poets and artists to create without following the strict rules of form. The organizational structure used in this passage is. A. sequence, as it shows how romanticism's features changed over time. B. classification because it lists movements in poetry and the arts. C. definition, as it explains the idea of romanticism in art and literature. D. cause/effect because it shows the effect of nature on poets and artists.

Which quotation best supports the authors’ claim and purpose?

[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

Can you describe the word chalk without saying the words chalk or chalky? (type your own definition of the word.)