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Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.”

I fell back,
Dazed, clutching my brow,
Groaning, “Oh my shin, oh my shin,”
And everybody peeled away from me
And dropped from laughter, and there we were,
All of us writhing on the ground for one reason
Or another.

Which phrase from the excerpt allows readers to hear what is happening in the poem?

Dazed, clutching my brow
Groaning, “Oh my shin, oh my shin,”
everybody peeled away from me
All of us writhing on the ground

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"Groaning, 'Oh my shin, oh my shin,'" — because it reproduces spoken sound (direct speech/on the page), letting readers hear the speaker.