Muriel started with the same recipe as Kelly used to make her fruit salad. Then Muriel added 1 cup of cherries and 1 cup of bananas, She put 2 cups of fruit salad into each bowl. How many bowls of fruit salad did Muriel make?

reading poetry is challenging when you don't have or very little of social context and culture schema.

solution: read the introduction, the norm, or even explaination if you still dont get it.

“way of writing” should be replaced with “writing style"

“idea” should be replaced with “purpose.”

maybe   “people from a long time ago” should be replaced with “elizabethans.”

which words are in bold?