Read the passage and answer the question. [1]Nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the

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Read the passage and answer the question. [1]Nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes betterthan the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.Tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in thehigh mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of theSierras and coastwise hills. The yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growingshaggy 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 hardlypower to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. But it isn't always this way. Before theyucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the sizeof a small cabbage, full of sugary sap, the Indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggersand 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 yuccatree?
To create an image of the sharp edges of the plant Toemphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are To explain whenand where the plant grows To show how afraid the author is ofthe plant