The excerpt above is from page 21 of harry potter and the sorcerer's stone by j. k. rowling. which passage represents
a correctly integrated quotation from the excerpt above?
a wind sweeps gently over the trimmed hedges of privet drive, which liess quiet and neat under the dark sky, not a
place where one would expect anything out of the ordinary to occur (rowling 21).
the harry potter books are so entertaining because they paint a picture of a world in which we all want to live. we all
long to find that extraordinary secret that will reveal our own special quality. like little infant potter waiting outside his
aunt and uncle's house (rowling 21), it's just a matter of time until we find that we are, after all, special.
harry potter lies outside his aunt and uncle's house, unaware that his life has changed forever (rowling 21). he
lies "not knowing he [is] special, not knowing he [is] famous " (rowling 21).
rowling builds a sympathetic protagonist with harry potter from the beginning of the series. in one of his first scenes in
the first book, the infant potter lies on a doorstep "not knowing he [is] special, not knowing he [is] famous " (rowling
21). we are told that not only is this boy surely unique and worthy, but that he would have a truly ordinary childhood
just like the rest of us.

Which excerpts from the war of the worldseffectively use setting to provide a contrast to the horror of the plot? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldshe remained standing at the edge of the pit that the thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival. the early morning was wonderfully still, and the sun, just clearing the pine trees towards weybridge, was already warm.they shouted consolation and promises, and went off back to the town again to get . one can imagine them, covered with sand, excited and disordered, running up the little street in the bright sunlight just as the shop folks were taking down their shutters and people were opening their bedroom windows.it was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the few scattered pine trees. the burning heather had been extinguished, but the level ground towards ottershaw was blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke.an enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. the heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.