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Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text? The following text is from Herman Melville's 1854 novel 'The Lightning-rod Man'. The stranger still stood in the exact middle of the cottage, where he had first planted himself. His singularity impelled a closer scrutiny. A lean, gloomy figure. Hair dark and lank, mattedly streaked over his brow. His sunken pitfalls of eyes were ringed by indigo halos, and played with an innocuous sort of lightning: the gleam without the bolt. The whole man was dripping. He stood in a puddle on the bare oak floor: his strange walking-stick vertically resting at his side.
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- 1It sets up the character description presented in the sentences that follow.✓
- 2It establishes a contrast with the description in the previous sentence.
- 3It introduces the setting that is described in the sentences that follow.
- 4It elaborates on the previous sentence's description of the character.
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It sets up the character description presented in the sentences that follow.
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