Now the girl again seeks out the tree: though trembling still, she would not fail his tryst; with eyes and soul she looks for pyramus; she wants to tell her lover how she had escaped such perils. she finds the place – the tree's familiar shape; but seeing all the berries' color changed, she is not sure. —"pyramus and thisbe," ovid read the passage. which statement best describes how the pacing of events heightens tension? a. the fast pace of the events does not allow the readers to think for themselves. b. the fact that thisbe sees pyramus immediately makes the story more shocking. c. the focus on the color of the berries makes the reader wonder if pyramus is still alive. d. the slow description of the search and surroundings builds anxiety in the reader.

Suppose you connect a battery to a small light bulb with a single wire. what do you think will happen? explain your answer.

Evaluate the argument in president kennedy’s inaugural address for sacrificing oneself for the greater good of humanity. is this argument convincing? in what ways can we see the legacy of his request in this word today.

[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