Bronx Masquerade Review Page 2
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2Define:
Alliteration – Repetition of the same beginning consonant sounds in a series of words
Simile – Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Metaphor – Direct comparison of two unlike things (saying one thing is the other)
Personification – Giving humanlike characteristics to something that isn’t human
Tone – Author’s attitude towards a subject
Poetry Analysis
Long Live Langston
1. “You were a pied piper” is an example of
By Wesley Boone
what type of figurative language?
a. alliteration
b. simile
Trumpeter of Lenox and 7th
c. metaphor
d. personification
through Jesse B. Semple,
you simply celebrated
2. “You simply celebrated Blues and Be-bop
Blues and Be-bop
and being Black before it was considered
and being Black before
hip.” is an example of what type of figurative
it was considered hip.
language?
You dipped into
a. alliteration
b. simile
the muddy waters
c. metaphor
d. personification
of the Harlem River
and shouted "taste and see"
that we Black folk be good
3. “Harlem streets you knew like the black of
at fanning hope
your hand” is an example of what type of
and stoking the fires
figurative language?
of dreams deferred.
a. alliteration
b. simile
You made sure
c. metaphor
d. personification
the world heard
about the beauty of
4. What do “maple sugar children” refer to?
maple sugar children, and the
a. sweet and kind kids
artfully tattooed back of Black
b. kids who gather sap to make maple sugar
sailors venturing out
c. Black children
to foreign places.
Your Sweet Flypaper of Life
d. Hispanic children
led us past the Apollo and on
through 125th and all the other
5. What is the tone of Wesley’s poem?
Harlem streets you knew like
a. admiring
the black of your hand.
b. dreamy
You were a pied-piper, brother man
c. joy
with poetry as your flute.
d. critical
It's my honor and pleasure to salute
You, a true Renaissance man
of Harlem.
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