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ACT Reading 2.9 Prose Fiction. Based on its context in the passage, which of the following words would be the best replacement for "immolation"?
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- Reading / Meaning of Words from Context
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- Literary / Poetic Structure, Prosody, Graphic Elementss
- English I EOC Assessment / Diction and Imagery
- ACT Reading / Meanings of Words From Context
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- 00:03
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by ritual sacrifice. It's good when... certain
- 00:08
things do go out of style.
- 00:24
Based on its context in the passage, which of the following words would be the best replacement
- 00:29
for "immolation" in line 16?
- 00:39
We know by now that the narrator means Fortunato nothing but harm.
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- 00:44
So the first thing we can do is get rid of any choices that have a positive context.
- 00:49
This makes "happiness" easy to eliminate.
- 00:51
There's no way the narrator wants Fortunato to experience even the least bit of joy.
- 00:57
"Creation" sounds too positive as well, and it doesn't really make any sense in
- 01:01
the sentence.
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How would the narrator be hiding "creation" behind his smile? Choice (D) is off the list.
- 01:08
The narrator's therapist might tell him that getting revenge on Fortunato is a way
- 01:11
of exerting power over him.
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However, the context of the sentence tells us that the narrator is imagining Forunato's
- 01:15
immolation, not his own.
- 01:15
We can't imagine any situation where the narrator would want to give his enemy power,
- 01:20
so we can nix choice (B).
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The word "immolation" actually means to kill someone as a sacrifice, especially by burning
- 01:30
them to death.
- 01:30
However, the narrator is using this term metaphorically. He doesn't necessarily want to set fire to
- 01:36
Fortunato; he wants revenge.
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Answer (A) is the correct choice.
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