In The Masque of the Red Death, how does the description of the clock contribute to the development of the story’s theme(s)?

Develops the idea that the inhabitants of the ball are running out of time and how they can not hide from the death forever. They are slowly wasting away in squalor and time will soon consume them as well.

Explanation:

a omg *hides wit stranger*

comfortable

explanation:

one type of the adjectives is predicate adjective. a predicate adjective is an adjective which follows a linking verb and modifies or refers back to the main subject of that linking verb.

it usually is used just before the noun it modies.

here in this example:

'penguins seem comfortable in the coolest habitats', comfortable is the predicate adjective which follows the linking verb 'seem' and modifies the noun.