Now read the essay entitled “Why Fahrenheit 451 Will Always Be Terrifying” by Jeffrey Somers. Which of these sentences from the article BEST develops a central idea of the article?

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Every few years, political developments cause an uptick in attention being paid to
classic dystopian novels.

This plot is often boiled down to a critique of book-burning — which still happens
— or an attack on censorship.

In this new age of "fake news" and Internet conspiracy, Fahrenheit 451 is more
chilling than ever.

HBO's adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 is expected to air in 2018, so it is the perfect
time to re-introduce yourself to the novel — or to read it for the first time.

What style should a speaker use when preparing a speech for his or her school's parent teacher association? a. excited b. casual c. strict d. formal

What character asks for god's mercy on the lady at the end of the poem? arthur lancelot the poem's speaker the reaper

[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