The following text is from Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth.Lily Bart and a companion are walking through a park. Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? A) It creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene. B) It establishes that a character is experiencing an internal conflict. C) It makes an assertion that the next sentence then expands on. D) It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.

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The following text is from Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth.Lily Bart and a companion are walking through a park. Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? A) It creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene. B) It establishes that a character is experiencing an internal conflict. C) It makes an assertion that the next sentence then expands on. D) It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.

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A) It creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene.

Answer 2

## Step 1The problem involves understanding the function of a sentence in a given text. The sentence in question is "The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches."## Step 2The sentence provides a detailed description of the physical setting, which is the landscape. It does not establish an internal conflict, nor does it make an assertion that the next sentence expands on. It also does not illustrate an idea introduced in the previous sentence.## Step 3The sentence is a detailed description of the physical setting, which is the landscape. It does not establish an internal conflict, nor does it make an assertion that the next sentence expands on. It also does not illustrate an idea introduced in the previous sentence.

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