How does this passage create a sense of place and time? a.) by describing the change in the boy’s dress, the passage establishes that the boy has become an arabian. b.) the passage states that it has been 11 months and 9 days, showing the reader how long the boy has been in africa and how the boy has changed in that time. c.) by describing the african continent, the passage explains why the boy has decided to stay. d.) the description of the dawn uses sensory language to evoke the beauty and mystery of the desert.

Which sentence you is an example of chronological structure in “the city without us”?

[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

Why did martin luther king jr mention the ancient greek philosophersocrates in his letter