Read the excerpt from Lena's paper on "A Shield."Based on the phrases "I am wounded with iron" and "I have witnessed much fighting," the shield in the poem must be an old shield carried by a seasoned warrior.

Lena uses two details from the poem—“I am wounded with iron” and “I have witnessed much fighting”—to support her conclusion that the shield is old and has been carried by an experienced warrior. Using textual details to support a conclusion is supporting an inference with evidence from the text, choice D.

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