Answer:
Sleights means the use of dexterity or cunning, especially so as to deceive.
Explanation:
This is what this word means but I can't tell you how the context lead me to this because I don't have the passage it came from.
Answer:The speaker describes the flowers as beautiful but also describes them as caged and plucked by people. He knows that they're the preferred option, but he'd rather be free as a weed than be wanted as a flower.
Explanation:
The flower and the weed symbolize two different lives and ways of being treated the speaker could choose, but he'd rather be free and alone than have a life a certain way.
B. two sources written by the same author are used