Which of the following is an example of the author's use of simile?
a. "it could have been the most ordinary family picture, except for the backdrop of white-wall tires."
b. "rays of sunlight streamed between the clouds, like the holy ghost on the cover of one of mattie's dead husband's magazines."
c. "…nervous white ribbons of lightning jumped between the mountaintops and the clouds."
d. "the whole tucson valley lay in front of us, resting in its cradle of mountains."

Which of the following  correctly  completes the missing line (line ii) of the outline? a.why gilman advocates “rest cure”b.why gilman hates “rest cure”c.gilman’s opinion of “rest cure”d.gilman’s need to punish the doctor      select the best answer from the choices providedabcd

Based on part two of trifles, which of the following images most reinforces the them of loneliness that exists throughout the play?

[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