Question

What is the meaning of the word miscellany based on its context in this excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island?

A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They had never been worn, my mother said. Under that, the miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.

A) items of value
B)similar things
C)junk
D)collection of things

Answer 1

D.collection of things

Answer 2

D) Collection of things.

Step-by-step explanation:

The meaning of the word “miscellany”, following only the context of the passage taken from R.L. Stevenson´s beautiful novel, can be inferred to mean “a collection of things”, in the sense that this list of things refers to several items of a diverse nature, some more valuable than others, and, notwithstanding its diverse nature, it can be said to be a composite totality, a whole or, again, a collection of things.