It is made of brass and is around the size of a large pocket watch, with a normal clock dial showing roman numerals and a smaller dial at the bottom for the second hand. the clock is suspended inside a swiveling brass ring fitted to the inside of a wooden box – this is the key to keeping the chronometer level even in an unsteady ship.
the author uses to explain the importance of the chronometer and the reader visualize it.
a: context clues
b: descriptive details
c: detailed synonyms
d: text features

Write me a sonnet about basketball

How many stanzas does this poem have, shall i compare thee to a summer day?

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above