It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living; how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living
is not so, then living is not. One would think, from looking at literature, that this question had never disturbed a
solitary individual's musings. Is it that men are too much disgusted with their experience to speak of it? The
lesson of value which money teaches, which the Author of the Universe has taken so much pains to teach us,
we are inclined to skip altogether. As for the means of living, it is wonderful how indifferent men of all classes
are about it, even reformers, so called—whether they inherit, or earn, or steal it. I think that Society has done
nothing for us in this respect, or at least has undone what she has done. Cold and hunger seem more friendly
to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off. (13)
All of the following appear in paragraph 13 EXCEPT
A. personification
B. rhetorical question
C. syllogism
D. allusion
E. parallelism

[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