Bronx Masquerade Review

“…her cheek raw as red-brown meat,” is an example of

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

What does the allusion “money is the alpha and the omega” mean?

• Money is green

• Money grows on trees

• This kids are poor

• Money is everything

  “My eyes see letters dancing backward across whatever page they’re printed on” is __________

• Personification

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

“Anyway, it’s good for him to help out the future Diego Rivera,” is an example of

• Simile

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Personification

“…Harlem streets you knew like the black of your hand…” is an example of

• Allusion

• Pun

• Inference

• Theme

“The bowling pin stood like a soldier on the lane” is an example of

• Personification

• None are correct

• Simile

• Metaphor

Which would be a theme for Bronx Masquerade?

• Bronx, New York

• Don't judge a book by its cover

• Tyrone

• Mr. Ward's classroom

What can we INFER about Tyrone?

• He starts to see his classmates from a different perspective

• He will become president

• He doesn't care about Open Mike Friday

• He will drop out

What is a CONNOTATION for the word 'blue'?

• The ocean

• The color

• Feeling sad

• The sky

In the poem on pg 32 it says “My name is Surprise.” What is this an example of?

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile