She gets to be brothers when she plays basketball.
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According to the narrator, why is basketball “as good as Shakespeare” (lines 16 and 17)?
It connects her to important people.
B It helps her to understand her life.
C It has the power to strongly affect her.
D It helps her deal with disappointments in life.
3
Based on lines 20 through 29, what can readers conclude about the narrator's father?
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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