Read the sentence from The Lightning Thief, and answer the following question. “By the window, sitting on a wooden tripod stool, was the most gruesome memento of all: a mummy.” (140)

What does gruesome memento most likely mean in this sentence?

Memento comes from the imperative form of "meminisse," a Latin verb that literally means "to remember." (The term memento mori, meaning "a reminder of mortality," translates as "remember that you must die.") The history of "memento" makes it clear where its spelling came from, but because a memento often helps one.

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