What is the purpose or effect of comparing trees to "persons" in the third paragraph of this passage? A) to make the trees seem more common and friendly to the narrator B) to make the trees seem frightening to the young narrator and Antonia C) to show how unimportant trees were to people during this time period D) to show how valuable and rare trees were in the narrator's landscape

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination