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The word "concluded" assumes a multifaceted role in literature, functioning both as a signal of finality and as a means of expressing decision or resolution. Often it marks the end of a discussion or an event, offering a sense of closure to the narrative, as when a character wraps up their deliberation or action ([1], [2]). It also frequently punctuates declarations and reflective moments, revealing the speaker’s final judgment or decision after weighing evidence or circumstance ([3], [4], [5]). Sometimes it serves to note the formal ending of agreements or ceremonies, thereby underlining significant turning points in the storyline, as seen in instances where treaties or engagements are neatly wrapped up ([6], [7], [8]). In dialogue, “concluded” helps to smoothly transition from a thought or statement to its ultimate implication, enhancing character voice and narrative rhythm ([9], [10], [11]). Overall, this term is used not merely to signal an ending but to encapsulate the synthesis of thought and action, lending both weight and clarity to a moment of finality within the literary work ([12], [13]).
  1. All, all is now concluded: the wishes and the hopes of my existence are fulfilled.
    — from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. When the ceremony was concluded, she led me into the sitting-room again, where she rang and sent for the children.
    — from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
  3. I with three other officers concluded that we would raise a crop for ourselves, and by selling the surplus realize something handsome.
    — from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant
  4. To him, as an Orientalist, I concluded that opium must be familiar; and the expression of his face convinced me that it was.
    — from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
  5. He then concluded it must be an assassin.
    — from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  6. The engagement was concluded there and then.
    — from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  7. In the war which began in 1702, and which was concluded by the treaty of Utrecht, the public debts were still more accumulated.
    — from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  8. Peace was then concluded, whereupon the Amazons evacuated the country.
    — from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens
  9. "All I ask is," she concluded, "that they shouldn't bother me any more.
    — from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  10. “I hope you will excuse me for boring on like this,” Miss Lavish concluded.
    — from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  11. I have now concluded, sir,” said Joe, rising from his chair, “and, Pip, I wish you ever well and ever prospering to a greater and a greater height.”
    — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  12. The next day I told myself that the incident was closed, concluded, that there would be no sequel.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. It is concluded:—Banquo, thy soul's flight, If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.
    — from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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