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WorksheetsExcerpt from Bronx Masquerade
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
He can never get Raul to rewrite a lick of homework or anything else.
Taste
Tongue
Any
All
He’ll launch into a tirade on you in a minute.
Angry Rant
Allusion of Praise
Groaning Complaints
Baseless Accusation
He’s not too wild about my art.
Impressed
Angry
Unimpressed
Crazy
If I drew you adrift
in a pen and ink sea
in a raging storm
would you laugh at me?
Floating aimlessly
Chasing a destination
Sailing
Going somewhere known
I swear that girl burned rubber getting back to her seat
Moved with haste
Drove a car and damaged its tires
Slowly burned, as if to destroy
Caused a disturbance
The other day, I duck into the library, snare a corner table,
and hunker down
Stay in place
Hide
Distract others
Workout
I freeze and wait for the snickers I’m used to.
Muffled laughs
Candy bar with chocolate
Raucous laughter
Boisterous taunting
so I stand here confiding /
there’s more to Devon /
than jump shot and rim.
Admitting private information
Lying about one's self
Confessing a fault
Wondering about a future
Close Reading: Which best analyzes this stanza?
I woke up this morning /
exhausted from hiding /
the me of me
The speaker is tired of hiding who he really is from himself and others
The speaker is tired of memes
The speaker is exhausted from hiding all night
The speaker is tired of being himself
Close Reading Analysis:
If I planted watercolor roses /
in your garden /
would you laugh then? /
Or would you breathe deep /
to sample their scent? /
I wonder.
The speaker wonders if her art would impress someone or if they would keep laughing
The speaker wonders if her garden is good enough
The speaker has ruined her garden with paint
The speaker has just started painting, hence it must be grown as a "garden"
