Answer the following questions:
1) What is the bowler’s arm compared to?
Ans: The bowler’s arm is compared to a spinning wheel.
2) What happens to the first ball thrown by the bowler?
Ans: The first ball thrown by the bowler is struck by the batter up into the eager crowd.
3) What happens to the second ball thrown by the bowler?
Ans: The second ball thrown by the bowler bounces into the stumps.
4) Which words describe the first ball thrown by the bowler?
Ans: Words like “flies,” “spinning wheel,” and extremely fast express a sense of speed in the first four lines.
5) Which phrases show that the away team is losing?
Ans: Phrases like “still fighting against losing” and “faint hopes rising” show that the away team is losing.
6) How do you know that the crowd is excited?
Ans: We know that the crowd is excited as the speaker compares the beating heart to of the crowd to the beating of drums and also uses the word “eager” to describe the crowd.
7) In which country is the match taking place? Which country is the winning team from? Which side does the speaker support? Explain how you know.
Ans: The match is taking place in India. The winning team is from India. The speaker supports the Indian team. We know that the speaker supports the Indian team because she keeps refusing to even suspect the team as…