"Oranges"

Which lines best represent the exposition of this poem?

• Before a drugstore. We/ Entered, the tiny bell/ Bringing a saleslady/ Down a narrow aisle of goods./ I turned to the candies/ Tiered like bleachers,

• The first time I walked/ With a girl, I was twelve, Cold, and weighted down/ With two oranges in my jacket./ December. Frost cracking

• I took my girl's hand/ in mine for two blocks,/ Then released it to let/ Her unwrap the chocolate.

• I fingered/ A nickel in my pocket,/ And when she lifted a chocolate/ That cost a dime,/ I didn't say anything.

What type of figurative language is this: "I turned to the candies/ Tiered like bleachers,"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Oranges most likely symbolize

• delicious fruit

• embarrassment

• love or passion

• uncertainty

Which type of figurative language is this:

I peeled my orange/ That was so bright against/ The gray of December/ That, from some distance,/ Someone might have thought/ I was making a fire in my hands.

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Which lines best show the point of view from which the story is told?

• I fingered/ A nickel in my pocket,/ And when she lifted a chocolate/ That cost a dime,/ I didn't say anything.

• Outside,/ A few cars hissing past,/ Fog hanging like old/ Coats between the trees.

• Light in her eyes, a smile/ Starting at the corners/ Of her mouth.

• She came out pulling/ At her gloves, face bright/ With rouge.

Which lines best indicate the conflict in the poem?

• December./ Frost cracking/ Beneath my steps, my breath/ Before me, then gone,

• I fingered/ A nickel in my pocket,/ And when she lifted a chocolate/ That cost a dime,/ I didn't say anything.

• I peeled my orange/ That was so bright against/ The gray of December/ That, from some distance,/ Someone might have thought/ I was making a fire in my hands.

• The first time I walked/ With a girl, I was twelve,/ Cold, and weighted down/ With two oranges in my jacket.

What type of figurative language is this:

Outside/ A few cars hissing past

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

The setting of the poem is in

• spring.

• winter.

• fall.

• summer.

When might this poem take place?

• 1990s

• 2010s

• 1910s

• 1960s

How does the conflict in the poem resolve?

• The girl smiles at him.

• The saleslady lets him get the chocolate.

• The girl allows him to hold her hand outside.

• He is able to eat his second orange.