Which implicit element of the analogy in these lines is analogous to "family worship"?

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anonymous · Answer

Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
 (from Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain)

anonymous · Answer

originality



chapter



building 



quotations

kittiwitti1 · Answer

*stalks in*
I'd say building. The passage compares "family worship" to the building of a house ("welded together with a thin mortar", "summit")

kittiwitti1 · Answer

I am literally following your questions all over and just hopping in when you post a new one. xD

anonymous · Answer

I appreciate it so much though!

kittiwitti1 · Answer

^w^