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a short part of a longer written workMore 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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- Questions 42-52 are based on the following passages.
- This passage is adapted from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ©1952.
- 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
- First, I translated a passage on Nelson's last battle from Dutch into English.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ...he handed it to me to read. One passage of it, at least, gave me a thrill of pleasure.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- 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
- 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
- When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? In the days that followed, I wrote that passage everywhere—unconsciously, compulsively. I find it now in books I was reading, in my lecture notes, in the margins of my journal.Tara Westover -- Educated
- Sometimes tears pooled in Hassan's eyes as I read him this passage, and I always wondered whom he wept for, the grief-stricken Rostam who tears his clothes and covers his head with ashes, or the dying Sohrab who only longed for his father's love?Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- He took out of the drawer a copy of a children's history textbook which he had borrowed from Mrs Parsons, and began copying a passage into the diary: In the old days (it ran), before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today.George Orwell -- 1984
- "There's another passage in a different book I'd like to share with you," he said.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- And even now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life.Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook
passage = short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of a longer written works
passage = short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of a longer written work
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passage = short part
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passage = short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of longer works
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passage = short part of a longer written work
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of longer written works
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of longer written works
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