Research the following questions and respond to all of the questions in NO LESS THAN 2 SENTENCES EACH. THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

What inspired Richard Connell to write the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”?
What makes “The Most Dangerous Game” such a popular short story?
What are the major literary devices in “The Most Dangerous Game”?
THE INTERLOPERS

In what time setting was “The Interlopers” written?
Who is the author of “The Interlopers” , Saki?
What are the major themes in the short story “The Interlopers”?
THE LOTTERY

Why did “The Lottery” open with such a bad response from its audience?
How does the setting of “The Lottery” relate to the society?
What are the major themes in the short story “The Lottery”?

Based on structural elements what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 congressional address by president woodrow wilson exemplify

How does mercutio, in romeo and juliet, convey his anger before dying?

[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