Small Town Read the excerpt.
An old man named Seth, sat in his rocking chair and
looked out over his town
Countryfield was a small town - even for lowa. The
population barely reached 263 people.
There was a post office, the bank, one store, and a
courthouse.
What is a way the setting
affects the story?
A. Since it's a small town, there are
strangers everywhere.
B. Since it's a small town, everyone knows
everybody else.
C. Since it's a small town, there are many
tall skyscrapers.
D. Since it's a small town, there are
thousands of cars.
Life here was simple. Yet, it was good. Everyone
knew everybody else.
Neighbors looked out for each other, and there was
peace.
Seth smiled as he rocked

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