Onomatopoeia is the name for words that sound like what they describe. Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

A
“Voila,” the chef announced, revealing a glorious dessert, set aflame.

B
“Yikes!” Riley exclaimed, gritting her teeth. “I do not want to talk about that!”

C
Justin poured a glass of soda, listening to the bubbles fizz in the glass.

D
Haroun could hear, from the crowd, shouts of “Hooray!” and chants of his name.

This is the political, social, cultural, and economic 'time and place' surrounding the creation of a literary text.

How is stockton’s concept of romantic love different from checkhovs if their stories are an indication of their views

[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