There are no better warriors, i believe, under heaven, no better bodies on earth, when the battle begins. i am the weakest, i know, and the least wise, and cling least to my life, if anyone wants the truth, but as you are my uncle whom i live to praise and your blood is the sole virtue in my body, and since this affair is so foolish, it does not befit you. i have asked this of you first, and beg you to grant it –sir gawain and the green knight, w. s. merwin which elements of chivalry does sir gawain exhibit in the passage? check all that apply. bravery honesty religious devotion loyalty physical strength

[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