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Read the Lines Given Above and Answer the Question that Follow: What is Suggested by the Use of the Word Trapped? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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Six humans trapped by happenstance
In black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs;
The first man held his back.
For on the faces around the fire,
He noticed one was black.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:

What is suggested by the use of the word trapped?

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The word trapped suggests that they do not want to be in the situation, but they cannot escape.

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पाठ 1.02: The Cold Within - Stanza 1 and 2

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