These lines provide the reader with explicit details about how the library items are arranged. The description focuses on the layout and placement of different items in the library, such as the semicircular desk, the card catalog, newspapers, and magazines.
Read the lines from the poem “My First Memory (of Librarians).”
In the foyer up four steps a semicircular desk presided
To the left side a card catalog
On the right newspapers draped over what looked like a quilt rack
Magazines face out from the wall
These lines provide the reader with
implicit details about how the speaker feels about books.
implicit details about how the speaker views magazines.
explicit details about how the library items are arranged.
explicit details about how the card catalog is organized.
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