Read the excerpt below and answer the question. “she gave me a message: she told me to tell you. she told me to tell you that she never was engaged to that handsome italian. i am sure i am very glad; mr. giovanelli hasn’t been near us since she was taken ill. i thought he was so much of a gentleman; but i don’t call that very polite! a lady told me that he was afraid i was angry with him for taking daisy round at night. well, so i am; but i suppose he knows i’m a lady. i would scorn to scold him. any way, she says she’s not engaged. i don't know why she wanted you to know; but she said to me three times—‘mind you tell mr. winterbourne.’ and then she told me to ask if you remembered the time you went to that castle, in switzerland. but i said i wouldn’t give any such messages as that. only, if she is not engaged, i’m sure i’m glad to know it.” (daisy miller: a study; p. 49) explain what the above passage suggests about the relationship between daisy and winterbourne. your answer should be at least one hundred words.

Which of the following story descriptions most directly shares themes with the passage above

1point the u.s. declaration of independence is structured logically to lead from premise to conclusion. which statement best completes its flow of reasoning? 1. all people are equally entitled to certain rights. ii. our rights have been violated by the british government. iii. ? o a. americans agree that king george iii is a tyrannical ruler. o b. americans must form their own government to protect their rights. o c. these rights are natural and god-given to all men equally. o d. no one can argue with the list of violations presented herein.

[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