And though my head felt heavy, I played on till dusk

Missing flies and pop-ups and grounders

And calling out in desperation things like

“Yours” and “take it,” but doing all right,

Tugging at my cap in just the right way,

Crouching low, my feet set.

“Hum baby” sweetly on my lips.

—“How I Learned English,”
Gregory Djanikan

The poem is written in first-person point of view. What does knowing this information allow readers to do?

imagine what it is like to play baseball
peek into the speaker’s mind
understand the slang of baseball
know what the other characters are doing

Read the following excerpt from patrick henry's march 23, 1775, speech: if we wish to be free-if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending-if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained- we must fight! which statement best explains how patrick henry uses parallelism in the passage to influence the audience? a. henry carefully lists the principles that all the colonists follow, principles that their british rulers do not share. b. the repetition of the word "fight" is meant to stir up the listeners' violent hatred of the british. ) c. by constantly referring to "we," henry makes it obvious that both he and the audience must sue for peace together. o d. repeating the words "if we" emphasizes the number of values that henry and the audience have in common.