Read the excerpt from “everyday survival.”
after years of combat experience, he explained the concept of survival by surrender: “don’t be afraid of anything,” he said during a recent radio broadcast. “if you are afraid, then you have to lock yourself inside your house. but if you want to keep on living, then you must forget about your fears and deal with death as something that is a must, something that’s going to happen anyway. even if you don’t die this way, you can die normally, whatever [you] do, [you’re] not going to change this.”
how do the words the author uses in the excerpt contribute to the persuasiveness of the text?
everyday survival
a -the author appeals to the reader’s fear to convey an instance when a person should just surrender to the expected result.
b-the author provides an expert opinion to explain why things happen as they do, even though people should not worry about the outcome.
c-the author appeals to the reader’s emotions to show what happens due to exposure to extreme violence and the fear of dying.
d-the author provides a quotation to convey the idea that death is going to happen anyway, so people should not fear the inevitable.

[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