Ex-Basketball Player Poetry Quiz

"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

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

The narrator, or speaker, refers to himself as 'I'.

What point of view is the poem written in?

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TEK2.8a

What inference can you make about the basketball player from the title of the poem?

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TEK2.4F

"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

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

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

What does the name Flick Webb imply?

Mark all possible choices.

• He feels stuck; figuratively caught in a web.

• He is really good at basketball because, with a flick of his wrist, he can shoot a basketball with ease.

• His parents were secretly into spiders and changed their name to Webb.

• Names never have any importance in stories.

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TEK2.8B

TEK2.8D

The idiom "stands tall" usually means

• stands or carries oneself with pride

• literally stands taller than everybody else

• puffs up hair to make yourself appear taller

• stands in line with everyone else to compare height

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TEK2.8B

Juxtaposing past and present, Flick once stood tall amongst his teammates, now he "stands tall" amongst the "idiot pumps," which suggests

• He is frustrated because he was on a team, but now is unsuccessful and working alone.

• He feels proud of his work pumping gas.

• He feels as if he works with idiots.

• Nothing, those words really don't have any other meaning.

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TEK2.8B

TEK2.8D