Which external feature is MOST critical in classifying this tree as a white fir?

A) shrub or tree
B) berries or cones
C) leaves or needles
D) cones hanging or upright

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "