A. Write at least four adjectives to describe each of the following people. Do not use the same adjective more than once. Circle the adjective in each set that you think is the
seven guests trapped on the roof of a hotel by a raging fire
after the noun to make them stand out.
and stormy, filled the mountain valley.
most descriptive.
1.
UNIT
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scared
2. the pilot of an airliner whose plane has just run out of fuel in flight
3. a young dancer performing for a large audience for the first time
B. Circle the adjectives so the following sentences. Draw an arrow from the adjective to
it or modifies.

[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