English, 05.03.2020 05:07 jahnoibenjamin
The author’s purpose is to make the rediscovery of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker seem exciting. This is achieved by
describing the bird as unusual in both size and sound.
all the above.
proving the people who doubted the rediscovery were wrong.
telling about the discovery as though it were a mystery story.
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English, 22.06.2019 05:50, yovann
[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
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English, 22.06.2019 08:00, bluesea55988
Click on the boxes to correctly identify how the forms of the word sense are used. marty sensed that his baseball team was in trouble. "whoa, that sensation wasn't entirely pleasant." the sensible thing to do now is study.
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English, 22.06.2019 09:20, gaceves6177
2points how might kafka's relationship with his father have affected his writing? what’s the answer
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