The writer alludes to Great Britain in the passage when he writes about “the country from which we have derived our origin.” What is the writer’s most likely reason for including this reference? Answer choices for the above question

A. to emphasize that Great Britain will maintain control of the United States government

B. to illustrate an example of a country that has created a system of checks and balances of governmental power

C. to provide a poor example of a country from which the United States can deviate when its ruling body is created

D. to remind the ruling members of the United States government that no governmental power will have total control of its people

Which themes are portrayed through juliet’s monologue?

Which words from the excerpt most contribute to the patriotic tone

[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