Question

from modern fiction
look within and life, it seems, is very far from being \like this\. examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. the mind receives a myriad impressions-trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. from all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of monday or tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the moment of importance came not here but there; so that if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the bond street tailors would have it.
(from \modern fiction\ by virginia woolf)
this sentence is from the passage.
\the mind receives a myriad impressions-trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.\
which is closest in meaning to myriad as it is used in the passage?

1. list of
2. category of
3. description of
4. great number of

Explanation:

The word "myriad" means a very large number. In the context of the passage, it describes the numerous impressions the mind receives. Options 1 (list of), 2 (category of), and 3 (description of) do not convey the sense of a large quantity. Option 4 (great number of) is the closest in meaning.

Answer:

1. great number of