Answer:
Sensory details appeal to the reader's sense of touch.
Explanation:
Helen Keller is describing how the leaves and blossoms feel from her perspective.
Answer:
Depending on the context you may consider antonyms to ostentatious such as reserved or modest. The word you are looking for is something like patina or tarnish.
The narrator of the story wants the ship to end by being destroyed in a battle or storm, instead of being completely dismantled and turned into scrap metal.
