Read the excerpt from does my head look big in this? by randa abdel-fattah. because it’s pretty hard to walk around with people staring at your "towel-head” and not feel kind of with yourself if you manage to get through the stares and comments with your head held high. that’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing god’s watching you, knowing that he knows you’re trying to be strong and him. like you’re both in on a private joke and something special and warm and extraordinary is happening and nobody else in the world knows about it because it’s your own experience, your own personal friendship with your creator. i guess when i’m not wearing the hijab i feel like i’m missing out. i feel cheated out of that special bond. which phrases from the excerpt best support the narrator’s confident tone? select three options a) “people staring” b) “head held high” c) “smile to yourself” d) “feel cheated” e) “special bond”

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man