20 points!! Read the scenario and answer the question that follows:

Suzanne just found out her friend has been keeping secrets from her. She immediately goes to her friend and asks why she would do such a thing. As Suzanne is standing tall and speaking, she says hello to several friends who pass by in the hallway. Then she says she is sorry for anything she may have done to hurt their friendship and cause her to keep secrets.

What action should Suzanne take in order to communicate more effectively?

A. Ask her friend why she has been keeping secrets
B. Discuss her observations, thoughts, and feelings and explain what she desires to have happen next
C. Let it go because bringing it up this way will only make her friend angry at her
D. Stand in a relaxed, slouching posture to avoid intimidating her friend

[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