The remark was so that emily, who is not usually sensitive to such lapses in taste, gave a gasp of surprise.

negligible
ponderous
complicated
inappropriate

Read the following poem and analyze it for ideas, themes, and values that reflect the puritan era. be sure to ask the key questions as a guide for analysis.

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

What is the metaphor used for captain beatty? what is he being compared to?