1. PART A: Which statement expresses the central idea of the text?

O A The Romans moved towards a more democratic

society by spreading power among elected officials,

but they favored the wealthy more than the Athenians

did.

B Rome wasn't a truly democratic society because

Roman citizens were severely limited when it came to

which officials they could vote for

OC The Athenians had a very successful democratic

society consisting of elected officials with limited

terms.

OD The Romans made it so that an individual's wealth

could not affect their ability to run for office or to vote

for officials.

Which one of these lines use him to permitte which one of these lines uses iambic pentameter?

[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 of these excerpts from “a white heron” is an example of personification