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Select the correct answer.
Read the excerpt from "The Oven Bird."
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
Which word or phrase below could best be used to replace the word cease without changing its denotative or connotative
meaning?
O A.
B.
discontinue
come to an end
OC.
O D. terminate
shut down
