(Screenshot shows answer to Part A)

30 points!

PART B: Which section from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A
“humans are ‘the primates whose cognitive capacity shuts down in the absence of a story.’” ( Paragraph 1)
B
“indeed, we should avoid the temptation to define intelligence in narrowly human terms.” ( Paragraph 9)
C
“He suggests that narrative intelligence may be a crucial step in machine ‘enculturation’” ( Paragraph 7)
D
“Just as computers might use stories or narratives as a way to structure memory and learning, humans may as well.” ( Paragraph 8)

The overwhelming majority of the peoples and nations of the world today want to live in peace

[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

Which type of rhetoric is used in this sentence? while i'm certain some will disagree with what i'm about to say, i respectfully ask them to listen to the evidence i will provide to support my claim