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a short part of a longer written work

More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.

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passage = a short part of a longer written work

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passage = short part of a longer written work

Questions 42-52 are based on the following passages.

passages = short parts of a longer written works

This passage is adapted from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ©1952.

passage = short part of a longer written work

Every child was made to stand at the front of the room and read from a passage the teacher gave them.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

passage = a short part of a longer written work

"There's another passage in a different book I'd like to share with you," he said.
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

passage = a short part of a longer written work

Mr. Birkway liked this passage because it showed that even though someone might be our best friend, he or she could still drive us crazy.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

passage = short part of a longer written work

First, I translated a passage on Nelson's last battle from Dutch into English.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

passage = a short part of a longer written work

In Mrs. Polster's class, they memorized passages from The Book of the City of Ember every week.
Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember

passages = short parts of a longer written work

He had just finished reading Doctor Zhivago, a book that incited him to scribble excited notes in the margins and underline several passages:
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

passages = short parts of a longer written work

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

passages = short parts of a longer written work

I thought of Cathy Earnshaw, the spoiled, selfish heroine in Wuthering Heights, and I remembered the passage I'd been reading before the doorbell rang.
Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)

passage = short part

He had watched as a single passage from Dostoevsky roused one man to action and another to indifference—in the very same hour.
Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow

passage = a short part of a longer written work

As her heart rate dropped and we realized that her time drew near, I opened a Gideon's Bible to a random passage and began to read.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

passage = short part of a longer written work

I looked over the paper.... It did not convey much to me, until I reached a passage where it described small puncture wounds on their throats.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

passage = short part of a longer written work

Louie wanted to give him a religious eulogy, but didn't know how, so he recited passages from movies.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken - adapted for young adults

passages = short parts of longer works

And I'm just about to recheck my email when this passage leaps from the screen: Throughout the novel, heat is a symbol for sexual desire.
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss

passage = a short part of a longer written work

Alums would like you to read a few passages from Langston Hughes.
Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

passages = short parts of longer written works

We would get the sense of the passage from these books, then substitute other, simpler words, and add a few mistakes, to make it look as if we'd done it ourselves.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin

passage = a short part of a longer written work

His celebrated passages are quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions; but this is totally distinct from giving his sense as you gave it.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

passages = short parts of longer written works

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