<p>I put motivation for exploration. Power of a phrase doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me, as it wasn't his words that were powerful, it was the visuals he carried back.</p>
<p>prelewd, for the question about feeling diminished, i think that was a choice for the same question as isolated and dejected, the question was like "the woman feels...." and the two choices i narrowed down to were diminished and isolated and dejected, i said diminished btw</p>
<p>No, isolated and dejected, and diminished, are two different questions. I had both as the answer. For the diminished question, the complete answer was "she contined to feel diminished after she moved to her new home" I thought it was a good answer except for "continued to" part, I don't know where it continued from...</p>
<p>and another thing, i dont think she was isolated, because no where in the passage did it mention she was alone, she lost her old friends, but she wasn't alone b/c she had her daughter, she felt diminished in her home because she was small and intimidated, just my two cents</p>
<p>For the "What best describes the 'feelings' Mrs. D hadn't felt before (end of paragraph 1)?" question, I think I had narrowed it down to either "isolation and dejection" and "nostalgia and serenity."</p>
<p>Or is the "isolated and dejected" question something completely different?</p>
<p>It said she felt better when she went back to visit Village St., which led me to think that it was "nostalgia," because she was still isolated there. Although "serenity" doesn't necessarily work...</p>