1. Jackson uses descriptive language, such as "pecuniary advantages," while Rutledge's account is dominated by direct language, such as "My father looks tired." How do you think this difference may relate to the different audiences the two authors were addressing? What was the purpose of each author? 2. What is another difference you notice between the styles of the two works? It might help to read a paragraph or two of each aloud. What effect does this difference have on the tone of the writing?

3. Authors do not necessarily share the feelings of their characters. Do you think Michael Rutledge hates white people the way Samuel does at the end of this passage? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Certain predictable elements of beowulf, such as the superhuman hero and the quest to defeat evil, are common to the form. a. story b. plot c. epic d. novel

[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

Write a narrative essay about a moment in your life when you were judged by something other than the content of your character. any narrative stories y’all have ? idk what to write