Maria is reading an essay comparing two poems and has come across a missing word. a love poem by a classicist will express emotion in a logical and restrained manner, whereas a love poem by a will celebrate the wild, the untamed, and the imaginative. both poems will likely involve rhyme. which term best completes the sentence? a. romanticist b. realist c. modernist d. naturalist

Based on the context of this excerpt from w. w. jacobs's "the monkey's paw," what does the word placidly mean? without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of laburnam villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. a. completing a task in a frantic manner b. having a particular motive for an action c. appearing to be calm and relaxed d. acting harshly or stubbornly