"I went to my room and sat on my bed, staring at the little white envelope that my dad had given me the night
before. It had seemed so incongruous then, just a silly note my dad had
passed to me while I was trying to fall asleep. But now it seemed more
important, in a way. He was on a crazy adventure-what if he didn't come
back? This was a possibility I had not considered at all in the months and
years leading up to his launch, but now it hit me in a very real way." Why
might the author have used the verb "hit" here?
A. to imply that Jason should have treated his dad with more kindness in the months
and years leading up to the launch
B. to hint that Jason's dad is unlikely to return from his "crazy adventure"
C. to convey the force and suddenness of Jason's realization that his dad might not
come back
D. to suggest that Jason slaps his hand on his forehead when he realizes that his dad
may not come back

How do sotomayor's descriptions of her family most likelyaffect readers?

Alittle later than his thisbe had, and he could see what surely were the tracks of a wild beast left clearly on deep dust. his face grew ashen. and when he had found the bloodstained shawl, he cried: "now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it's i who bear the guilt for this. which statement best describes how the order of events creates tension?

[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