Read the excerpt from "I Believe in a British Empire" by
Joseph Chamberlain
Which elements of an argument do these two passages
share? Select three options.
the same claim
the same purpose
Da call to action
an appeal to emotion
I cannot look forward without dread to handing over the
security and existence of this great Empire to the hands of
those who have made common cause with its enemies,
who have charged their own countrymen with methods of
barbarism, and who apparently have been untouched by
that pervading sentiment which I found everywhere where
the British flag floats, and which has done so much in
recent years to draw us together. I should not require to
go to South Africa in order to be convinced that this feeling
has obtained deep hold on the minds and hearts of our
children beyond the seas. It has had a hard life of it, this
feeling of Imperial patriotism. It was checked for a
generation by the apathy and the indifference which were
the characteristics of our former relations with our
Colonies, but it was never extinguished. The embers were
still alight, and when in the late war this old country of ours
an appeal to reason

[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