Question

Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.” It was in an empty lot Ringed by elms and fir and honeysuckle. Bill Corson was pitching in his buckskin jacket, Chuck Keller, fat even as a boy, was on first, His t-shirt riding up over his gut, Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it up In the field, a blue sky above them Tipped with cirrus. And there I was, Just off the plane and plopped in the middle Of Williamsport, Pa. and a neighborhood game, Unnatural and without any moves, My notions of baseball and America Growing fuzzier each time I whiffed. Which detail from this excerpt helps readers determine that the poem is written from a first-person point of view? the description of the speaker as “unnatural” the description of the boys “talking it up” the use of the words “I” and “my” the use of the words “his” and “them”

Answer 1

i think the answer is c the use of the words “I” and “my”

Answer 2

The answer is: the use of the words “I” and “my”

The first-person point of view allows readers to identify with the speaker and get to know his deepest feelings, thoughts ad motifs. It makes use of words like I, me, mine and my.

In the excerpt from "How I Learned English," by Gregory Djanikian, the narrator and the rest of the boys are playing baseball in a baseball field. He has difficulties with the game because he has just emigrated from Egypt. As a consequence, the use of the first-person point of view lets readers acknowledge that he feels as an outsider.