Now answer numbers 1 through 8. base your answers on the passage "two left feet, two left
hands, and too left on the bench."

1. what can the reader infer the main idea of the passage from the title "two left feet, two
left hands, and too left on the bench?
a. someone in the passage is a gifted athlete.
b. someone in the passage hates to play sports.
c. someone in the passage is physically challenged.
d. someone in the passage is not very good at sports.

2. what organizational pattern does the author use in the first paragraph?
f flashback
g. time order
h. spatial order
1. foreshadowing

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

Myths often function as a connection to the , or the customs and beliefs, of a group of people.