What were the “appliances of pleasure” with which the main character stocks the abbey?

The 'appliances of pleasure' with which Prince Prospero stocks the abbey includes buffoons, improvisatori, ballet-dancers, musicians, Beauty, and wine.

Explanation:

"The Masque of the Red Death" is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. The story is about widespread of the 'Red Death' across the nation, and the main character, Prince Prospero, secludes himself along with his thousands of friends from the suffering of the world.

Prince Prospero builds for himself and his friends an abbey, highly-secured, and filled with the 'appliances of pleasure.' These 'appliances of pleasure' included buffoons, improvisatori, ballet-dancers, musicians, Beauty, and wine. He filled the abbey with all kinds of gluttony to be enjoyed by him and his friends in the abbey.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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- "a.) it includes letters and books gathered over 1200 years, and consists of two parts.

- most of the new testament is letters from paul to the different churches, and since there's a new testament that means there is an old testament. "