4. Read these sentences from the passage. The Morlands were in general very plain, and Catherine was as plain as any. She had a thin,
awkward figure, sallow
skin, dark lank hair, and strong features. (paragraph 3)
What effect does the word choice in these sentences have?
(1 Point)
A. It points out Catherine's deep personality flaws.
B. It emphasizes Catherine's physical beauty.
C. It shows how different Catherine looked from the rest of her family.
D. It exaggerates Catherine's lack of physical attractiveness.

Speaking rapidly in a large gymnasium causes your words to run together; making them hard to distinguish. true false

What is the first step in summarizing a plot? restating central ideas and key details eliminating minor or unimportant details connecting ideas with logical transitions identifying important words and phrase

[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