Which excerpt from “a poem for my librarian, mrs. long” gives the best example of an implicit detail? a. there was always a radio which brought us songs from wlac in nashville b. there was a bookstore uptown on gay street which i visited c. and up the hill on vine street (the main black corridor) sat our carnegie library d. and mrs. long opened that wardrobe but no lions or witches scared me

The correct answer is the following: option D. The excerpt from "A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long" that gives the best example of an implicit detail is the phrase "And Mrs.Long opened that wardrobe but no lions or witches scared me". The phrase is an example of what an implicit detail and also an allusion is. The narrator is making a reference to C.S Lewis book "The Lion, The witch and The Wardrobe" but it is not an explicit reference, but an implicit one. The reader will understand the allusion without the writer having to directly write about it.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,