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Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? The following text is from Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth. Lily Bart and a companion are walking through a park. Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches. On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.
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- 1It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.✓
- 2It makes an assertion that the next sentence then expands on.
- 3It establishes that a character is experiencing an internal conflict.
- 4It creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene.
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It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.
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