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"A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were outlined with brightly colored glass and broken Coca-Cola bottles. Lighting rods guarding some graves denoted dead who
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"A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were outlined with brightly colored glass and broken Coca-Cola bottles. Lighting rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves." In the excerpt above, what best describes the way in which the author is using a semicolon?

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To describe the cemetery, I think.

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The beginning shows a cemetry, after the semicolon it describes different aspects of the cemetery.

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to connect two closely related clauses without a coordinating conjunction

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