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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.
- Each passage below is followed by a number of questions.
passage = a short part of a longer written work
- After reading each passage, choose the best answer to each question.
- Questions 42-52 are based on the following passages.
- This passage is adapted from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ©1952.
- 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
- "There's another passage in a different book I'd like to share with you," he said.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- 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
- First, I translated a passage on Nelson's last battle from Dutch into English.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- In Mrs. Polster's class, they memorized passages from The Book of the City of Ember every week.Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Alums would like you to read a few passages from Langston Hughes.Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
- 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
passage = short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of a longer written works
passage = 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 = short part of a longer written work
passage = a short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of a longer written work
passages = short parts of a longer written work
passages = short parts 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
passage = short part of a longer written work
passages = short parts of longer works
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
passages = short parts of longer written works
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