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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Narrative Elements in "How I Learned English"

Question 2 • SS-English Language Arts 7

Which lines from the passage use first-person point of view to show the narrator’s feelings?

Answer
A
“It was in an empty lot / Ringed by elms and fir and honeysuckle.”
B
“Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it up / In the field, a blue sky above them”
C
“And there I was, / Just off the plane and plopped in the middle”
D
“My notions of baseball and America / Growing fuzzier each time I whiffed.”

Explanation

The words “My notions” identify the narrator’s own thoughts, and “growing fuzzier” shows how confused those thoughts are becoming. That makes the line both first-person and a clear expression of the narrator’s feelings. Choice C uses “I,” but it mainly describes where the narrator is, rather than how the narrator feels.

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