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Literary critic: Many readers interpret the protagonist's silence at the end of the novel as a sign of despair. However, throughout the book, the author uses silence to signify deep contemplation and spiritual peace. Therefore, the ending should be seen as a moment of profound internal resolution rather than despair.
The statement that the author uses silence to signify deep contemplation and spiritual peace plays which one of the following roles in the argument?
- It is the evidentiary basis the critic invokes to justify reading the closing silence as resolution rather than despair.
- It is a concession the critic grants to those readers who find the novel's closing scene genuinely ambiguous in meaning.
- It is a sub-conclusion the critic supports with the prior claim about how many readers respond to the novel's ending.
- It is the overall interpretive judgment that the critic's whole argument is ultimately designed and arranged to reach.
- It compares this particular novel's recurring use of silence to the narrative techniques of other authors in the genre.
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