Answer:
The word present would mean: <em>The act of delivering something</em>.
Explanation:
We can use this definition in the text, as well as context clues to find out that this is the correct answer.
"Sam had to deliver a lecture to the rest of the class, but he was nervous."
I would say that it was the sentence that said"
''He lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way.'" that shows that he is contemplating his life, plzzzzz mark as brainliest :)
Fiction in which the author self-consciously <span>to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions</span>
