Read the excerpt from "How I Learned English."

So it was not impossible that I,

Banished to the outfield and daydreaming

Of water, or a hotel in the mountains,

Would suddenly find myself in the path

Of a ball stung by Joe Barone.

I watched it closing in

Clean and untouched, transfixed

By its easy arc before it hit

My forehead with a thud.

How is this excerpt important to the poem as a whole?

It introduces the problem the speaker has playing his baseball position.

It shows why the speaker does not like playing baseball.

It shows how the speaker's feelings about himself begin to change.

It develops the idea that the speaker feels like an outsider with the other boys.

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Johnny Pittman

English

8 September, 14:00

Read the excerpt from "How I Learned English."

So it was not impossible that I,

Banished to the outfield and daydreaming

Of water, or a hotel in the mountains,

Would suddenly find myself in the path

Of a ball stung by Joe Barone.

I watched it closing in

Clean and untouched, transfixed

By its easy arc before it hit

My forehead with a thud.

How is this excerpt important to the poem as a whole?

It introduces the problem the speaker has playing his baseball position.

It shows why the speaker does not like playing baseball.

It shows how the speaker's feelings about himself begin to change.

It develops the idea that the speaker feels like an outsider with the other boys.

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Belinda Townsend · Answer 1

Answer & Explanation:

Rising action in a plot is a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative. In literary works, a rising action includes all decisions, characters' flaws, and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax.