SAT Form, Structure, and Sense Question

In the list "Things That Arouse a Fond Memory of the Past" from Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, the author delights in pressed silk, a moonlit night, and dried hollyhock. So shrewd an observer is Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi, that her book's musings on tenth-century Japanese courtly life ______ readers a thousand years later.