Adjective
Perilous– Full of Danger
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
“Madga was wavering in the perilous sunlight of the arena,scribbling on such pitiful little bent shins”
The Narrator shows how Magda was in the danger of the sunlight of the arena and how she was feeling.
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