Read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. eight years later francis langley erects the swan on a site nearby; and in 1596 richard burbage builds the blackfriars theatre, an indoor venue, although it does not open its doors until 1599. most important of all, shakespeare, richard and cuthbert burbage, and their partners dismantle the theatre and remove its beams to a new site at southwark, where it is rebuilt in 1599 as the globe. when edward alleyn builds the fortune on the northern edge of the city in 1600, the array of elizabethan theaters is complete. how does the author effectively show the establishment of elizabethan theaters? by using a humorous and lighthearted tone. by randomly listing when certain theaters were built in the past. by using a grave and critical tone. by listing in chronological order when several important theaters were built.*the answer is d*

[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