The excerpt is important in a sense that, it develops the idea that the speaker feels like an outsider with the other boys.
Answer: Option D.
Explanation:
‘How I Learned English’ is a poem written by Gregory Djanikian where he have used first person point of view in his writing to give the readers idea about the thoughts and feelings of the central character.
The excerpt provides gives us an idea that how the speaker is feeling indifferent from the rest of the boys. The setting here is about the rising action, it describes how the speaker is engaged with other boys, but despite that he feels like an outsider.
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.
The sentence that contains both a simile and personification is the following one: My baseball glove wrapped itself around the ball like a mother holding her child.
