If you could spend $50 on a brand new T-shirt or $1 on the same shirt that's been worn once or twice, which would
you choose? Sadly, many people overlook thrift stores in
their shopping. I myself have not bought a brand-new
article of clothing since I was 18.
Which statement best describes the structure
of this argument?
• A. The writer first appeals to the reader's emotions
her authority.
and then to his or
•
B. The writer first appeals to his or her authority and then to the
reader's emotions.
C.
The writer first appeals f8 common sense and then to his or her
authority.
•
D.
The writer first appeals to the authority of the reader and then
logic and fact.
to

[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