She imagined the characters' lives.
Meaning: This sentence is describing the way she is forming mental images or ideas of the people or animals in the story and the time that they were alive.
Choice of Words: Imagined is a verb that means to form a mental image or idea of something. Characters are the people or animals in a story. Lives is a noun that means the time that a person or animal is alive. When you put them together, "She imagined the characters' lives" means she formed mental images or ideas of the people or animals in the story and the time that they were alive.
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