The pivot

SAT Glossary

The word where a text turns — however, but, yet, although, despite, nevertheless, in contrast, surprisingly, paradoxically — and the highest-value thing to annotate. On a text with a pivot the answer is downstream of it with overwhelming frequency, because the pivot is where the author's actual position lives and everything before it is the setup being displaced.

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