Ex-Basketball Player Poetry Quiz

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English
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10th Grade
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Debra Mims
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29 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"Ex-Basketball Player" serves as an example of a narrative poem because it
reflects on death or other solemn, serious issues
tells a story in verse
celebrates or honors a person, object, or idea
expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
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TEK2.7
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The poem has which rhyme scheme?
abab cdcd efef gg
aabb ccdd eeff gg
abab cdcd efef gh
no rhyme scheme
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TEK2.7B
3.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 3 pts
The narrator, or speaker, refers to himself as 'I'.
What point of view is the poem written in?
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TEK2.8a
4.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
What inference can you make about the basketball player from the title of the poem?
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TEK2.4F
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"Trolley tracks" serves as an example of alliteration because it
sounds like what it does
has the same sound at the beginning of each word
has a repetition of vowel sounds
rhymes with words from other lines in the stanza
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TEK2.8B
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The description of Pearl Avenue as "cut off/before it has a chance" could be a symbolic presentation of which of the following?
Flick being cut by equipment at work.
Failed opportunities to play ball.
How Flick gave up on his dreams.
Flick's dead-end future.
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TEK2.8D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The garage "is on the corner facing west."
Facing the direction west has symbolic meaning. Which does West not symbolize?
hope. possibility, opportunity
new frontiers, adventure, exploration
the pursuit of seemingly impossible dreams
hopelessness, impossibility, failed opportunity
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TEK2.8D
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