1 I stand in the advancing light, my hands hungry, the world beautiful.
2 My eyes can't get enough of the trees-
they're so hopeful, so green.
3 A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I'm at the window of the prison infirmary.
4 I can't smell the medicines-
carnations must be blooming nearby.
5 It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.
Which of the following describes a main theme of the poem, "It's This Way"?
Appreciation of nature is frequently at odds with hostile behavior.
Maintaining hope in difficult circumstances is seldom futile.
Demonstrating perseverance often discourages an opponent.
Approval gained as a prisoner rarely diminishes punishment

Determine the meaning of the word *propel* using the context clues in the sentence. wind power is the ability to capture the wind in a way to *propel* the blades of wind turbines. a) to move slowly b) to urge onward c) to stop from moving d) to drive, or cause to move, forward

[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

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