Context clues give the reader some idea of the meaning of perhaps unfamiliar words or ideas. I'll underline some of the context clues in your paragraph.
Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadows, forty thousand men exhausted by nervous expectation, unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily askew in their uniforms. A mile yet farther on, another army was strewn helter-skelter, turning slow, basting themselves with the thought of what they would do when the time came: a leap, a yell, a blind plunge their strategy, raw youth their protection and benediction.
I don''t quite understand what context clues are. Here is what they ask to do:
Circle the words in the bracketed paragraph that are context clues that suggest that askew means "lying in a crooked way".
and here's the paragraph:
Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadows, forty thousand men exhausted by nervous expectation, unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily askew in their uniforms. A mile yet farther on, another army was strewn helter-skelter, turning slow, basting themselves with the thought of what they would do when the time came: a leap, a yell, a blind plunge their strategy, raw youth their protection and benediction.
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