All 11 Uses of

passage

in

Selected Tales, by Poe

Length of years, and subsequent reflection, have enabled me to trace, indeed, some remote connection between this passage in the English moralist and a portion of the character of Ligeia.
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passage = a short part of a longer written work

I bent to them my ear and distinguished, again, the concluding words of the passage in Glanvill—"Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will."
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Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

I have been filled with it by certain sounds from stringed instruments, and not unfrequently by passages from books.†
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A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master.†
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One favorite volume was a small octavo edition of the Directorium Inquisitorium, by the Dominican Eymeric de Gironne; and there were passages in Pomponius Mela, about the old African Satyrs and OEgipans, over which Usher would sit dreaming for hours.†
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The door leading from the front room into the passage was locked, with the key on the inside.†
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A small room in the front of the house, on the fourth story, at the head of the passage was open, the door being ajar.†
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Several witnesses, recalled, here testified that the chimneys of all the rooms on the fourth story were too narrow to admit the passage of a human being.†
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There is no back passage by which any one could have descended while the party proceeded up stairs.†
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Both doors leading from the rooms into the passage were securely locked, with the keys inside.†
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Definitions:

(1) (passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...)
a short part of a longer written work

This meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
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.