One strategy you can use to determine the meanings of unknown words and phrases is to look at the context clues. Context clues might be something like a picture, words or phrases you already know, using what you know about the text already.
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Answer:
The man was about to be hanged.
Explanation:
Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" tells the story of how a convicted man was about to be hanged on the railroad bridge. The man, Peyton Farquhar, was a plantation farmer who was accused of trying to burn down the bridge during the Civil War.
The lines/ excerpt given in the question is from the first paragraph of the story which shows Peyton waiting for his death. The author/ speaker of the story is describing the scene and setting of the story, the exact point where we see Peyton (yet unnamed) waiting for the rope to be pulled which will finalize his death.
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A word used to identify any of a class of people, places or things common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun