In "This Is Spinal Fusion," the author's feelings about her condition change from the time she learns she has scoliosis to her final thoughts on her surgery. Which phrase best
describes the progression of the author's emotions?
- from anger and denial to acceptance
-from distress and isolation to gratitude
-from seriousness to amusement
-from grief to determination

Describe a situation when you used a text successfully to preview , you prepare for ,review or locate information you were learning

What does the author means by "string-along songs about razor blades" (champion of the world- maya angelou)

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)