Assignment:  "Ex-Basketball Player" 1. Summarize and write a theme for the poem. 2. Give an example of a simile, metaphor, and personification in the poem and clearly state which is which. 3. Think of a key image from the poem. Why did you visualize the image? What does the image mean to you? ​

Read the paragraph. we heard music coming from the auditorium so we crept up to the door in peaked in. i couldn’t believe my eyes! a group of dancers were on stage in the most beautiful costumes i have ever seen. i looked at mabel and she looked back at me with the same expression. our eyes were wide with joy and wonder. which point of view does the narrator use