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ACT Aspire Reading: Defining "A Solitude" in Context
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As it is used in the passage, the phrase "a solitude" means:

ACT Aspire Reading: How Does the Author Build Suspense?
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In Lucy's conversation with Mr. Rayburn, the author builds suspense by:

ACT Aspire Reading: Defining a "Walking Funeral" in Context
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When the narrator says that she is observing a "walking funeral", she most likely means that:

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When the narrator says that she is observing a "walking funeral", she most likely means that:


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Okay Aspiring readers We had two of ten here Next

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up The question when the narrator says that she is

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observing a walking funeral she most likely means what Okay

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well let's think about this No a walking funeral isn't

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a new way to exercise and pay your respects at

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the same time Yeah dead aerobics or something that he

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called sweating to the oldies How about that Well since

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the narrator gives us a firsthand account of the funeral

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we know that there is in fact a service so

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can't be d and that it's not a walk and

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talk kind of deal So it's not be the formal

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service already happened and the townspeople are following This is

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big to her grave which sounded more mccobb than way

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meant it to sound Yeah while other mourners may join

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in on the way Well that isn't the meaning of

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the term So it's a the mourners are for following

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the deceased from the service to the grave for there

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Final resting place And let's hope they brought some gatorade

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