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Mashaal Masha
Jan 13, 2024
The following text is from Herman Melville's 1854 novel The Lightning-rod Man.
The stranger still stood in the exact middle of the cottage, where he had first planted himself. His singularity impelled a closer scrutiny, A lean, gloomy figure. Hair dark and lank, mattedly streaked over his brow. His sunken pitfalls of eyes were ringed by indigo halos, and played with an innocuous sort of lightning: the gleam without the bolt. The whole man was dripping. He stood in a puddle on the bare oak floor: his strange walking-stick vertically resting at his side.
Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text?
Difficulty: Medium
A:
It elaborates on the previous sentence's description of the character.
B:
It introduces the setting that is described in the sentences that follow.
C:
It establishes a contrast with the description in the previous sentence.
D:
It sets up the character description presented in the sentences that follow.
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