This excerpt was written by Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved African who was taken to Barbados. Read the passage, then answer the question. Their huts, which ought to be well covered, and the place dry where they take their little repose, are often open sheds, built in damp places; so that when the poor creatures return tired from the toils of the field, they contract many disorders, from being exposed to the damp air in this uncomfortable state. –Sugar Changed the World, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos What is the primary purpose of this passage? to create sympathy for enslaved workers to demonstrate a typical day of labor on a plantation to compare the living conditions of plantation owners and enslaved workers to show ways housing on plantations could have been improved

[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

Which revision best removes the informal language from this passage? (1) you should totally hire me to be your front deskreceptionist at your veterinary clinic because i loveanimals. (2) not only have l owned a wide array of pets,have also volunteered for three years at the crater valleyanimal shelter. (3) this experience would allow me to customers keep their animals calm and controlled whilethey wait for their appointments.oa. change only sentence 3 to 'this experience would allow me to customers keep their animals in an appropriate state ofanticipation while awaiting their appointments.ob. there is no informal language, so no change is necessary.oc. change only sentence 2 to not only have i owned a wide array ofpets, i have also volunteered for two years at the crater valleyanimal shelterod. change only sentence to believe that have the potential tosucceed as a receptionist formour veterinary office because i loveanimals

Which best completes the list of brainstorm ideas?