Which implicit element of the analogy in these lines is analogous to "family worship"? Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai. (from Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain)

A. originality

B. chapter

C. building

D. quotations

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Maximo Bass

1 February, 03:47

Which implicit element of the analogy in these lines is analogous to "family worship"? Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai. (from Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain)

A. originality

B. chapter

C. building

D. quotations

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Lance Riggs · Answer 1

Lance Riggs 1 February, 06:18

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The answer is c building

Victor Francis · Answer 2

The implicit element of the analogy in the lines which is analogous to "family worship" is:

C. building

Explanation:

Implicit meaning means the meaning which is included and hidden. The meaning is not clearly visible to the readers. In the above excerpt, Aunt Polly's family worship has an implicit meaning implying to her building. Aunt Polly's building is the place where she used to do her family worship.