Which statement best describes how the connotation of the word commotion affects the passage's meaning?
Maria put down the map and stared at the bungalow. It was definitely
much smaller than she thought it would be, but it held a certain kind of
simple charm. The commotion of the city would be far behind her now.
O A. The connotation indicates that Maria is happy to be out of the city.
O B. The connotation reinforces the idea that Maria has never left the
city before.
O C. The connotation reveals that Maria will miss the activity of the
city
O D. The connotation suggests Maria already finds rural life boring.

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What does the morality play everyman say about fate and free will? develop a short response using examples from the text to support your answer.

[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