Identifying a Character's Physical Trait
Which phrase describes a physical trait?
He was overweight and the kids at his middle school
often teased him about his size. Even his teachers
sometimes made cruel comments without realizing it. On
his last day of school, his math teacher, Mrs. Bell, taught
ratios. As an example, she chose the heaviest kid in the
class and the lightest kid in the class, and had them weigh
themselves. Stanley weighed three times as much as the
other boy. Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1,
unaware of how much embarrassment she had caused
both of them.
- Holes,
Louis Sachar
"often teased him"
"wrote the ratio"
"made cruel comments
"he was overweight"

"alice wondered a little at this,but she was too much in awe of the queen to disbelieve it".what is the effect of the author's word choice in this sentence?

[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

Would the essay be more effective in explaining the concept of dead reckoning if you knew from the beginning that ahmed is an ant?