Hello, you did not include the passage to which this question refers, which makes it impossible for the question to be answered accurately.
However, I can help you by giving you guidelines on how to complete the sentence and the meaning of the word patron.
When completing a sentence, you must maintain the concept to which it was started. In addition, you must observe the verb tenses used and use verbs at the same time, allowing the sentence to be coherent, cohesive and grammatically correct. That way your sentence will make sense and will be able to form an understandable message.
The word patron is generally used to indicate someone or something, who has the ability to defend, care for, advise and defend another person, animal or object. In other words, the patron always has a heroic and caring sense.
The apathy which seemed to take possession of some of the men at the frustration of their hopes was soon dispelled
When they were about a mile and a half away their voices were quite audible to us at Ocean Camp, so still was the air.
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<em>After a period of Internet growth, programmers will refine the Internet by adding intelligence.</em>
The correct answer for this question is this one: "Setting." As you read the passage, it describes what is in the setting: It is evident on this line, "<span>At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris."
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The passage above is taken from the book of Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado."