Word Bank Main idea
nonfiction
infer
title
Summarizing
author
compare
contrast
1.
writing that concerns real events and is intended to explain,
inform, persuade, or give directions
2.
to make a brief statement about the essential ideas in a text
3.
the name of the article or text
4.
what the text is mostly about
5
to use information the author has given you plus your prior
knowledge to find the meaning of the text
6.
to tell how things are alike
7.
to tell how things are different
8.
the person who wrote the article or text

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