Which is the most effective topic sentence for his paragraph
about this poster?

a correct) one poster uses an image of a family picnicking in a
field with military planes flying overhead to equate the country's safety with the safety of loved ones.

b) one poster uses an image of a family in a field
observing military planes to show that there are many activities that a family can enjoy together.

c) one poster uses an image of a family picnicking in a
field to show that some people choose to stay at home instead of protect their country.

d) one poster uses an in image of a family in a field
unaware of the military planes overhead to present the idea that people should be grateful to pilots.

a is the correct 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