Answer:
Apostrophe
Explanation:
The persona is talking to death as if they are facing each other and having a conversation. He is addressing something that is absent as if it's present.
It causes the reader to think that Cecily is a quick-witted person. Cecily was able to respond quickly with a counter argument, but that doesn’t mean that Cecily dislikes Algernon, that Algernon is funny or that Algernon is confused. (Algernon definitely isn’t confused since he was making a statement of how Cecily was his little cousin...meaning younger.)
Answer:
The stems are covered with tough skin, and is covered with wax. The think waxy skin down loss of water. The leaves of cacti are sharp spines(thorns). Many animals want the water inside the cactus, but the sharp spines and thick shin protects the cactus.
