Question

from modern fiction

look within and life, it seems, is very far from being \like this\. examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. the mind
receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. from all sides they come, an incessant shower
of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of monday or tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the
moment of importance came not here but there; so that if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he
must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or
catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the bond street tailors would have it.
(from \modern fiction\ by virginia woolf)

this sentence is from the passage.

\the mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.\

which is closest in meaning to myriad as it is used in the passage?

1. list of

1. category of

1. description of

1. great number of

Explanation:

To determine the meaning of "myriad" in the passage, we analyze the context. The sentence says the mind receives a "myriad impressions" and then describes them as coming from "all sides" in an "incessant shower of innumerable atoms". "Innumerable" implies a large quantity, so "myriad" here should mean a great number of. Let's check the options:

• Option 1: "list of" doesn't fit as the passage is about the quantity of impressions, not a list.
• Option 2: "category of" is incorrect as the impressions are not being categorized here.
• Option 3: "description of" is wrong because the focus is on the number of impressions, not describing them.
• Option 4: "great number of" matches the context of many impressions coming from various sources.

Answer:

1. great number of