Read the following sentence from Claribel Alegria's “Granny and the Golden Bridge” and answer the question. After the civil war started, the army stationed troop units at either end of the bridge to protect it and to control traffic crossing it.

Which type of parallel structure is used in this excerpt?

to compare and contrast ideas
to balance independent clauses in a sentence
to link two dependent clauses
to balance phrases

Can someone “think of a time you overcame a challenge or obstacle. describe the experience in two or three sentences”

[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

Describe how byron utilizes literary techniques to illustrate this woman. relate how at least one of these techniques adds to the reader's experience of beauty. your answer should be at least one hundred words.