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讀完這篇文章這六題題目可以怎麼回答？（急）

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. In the last stanza, what is the candy compared to, and who sees it that way?

4. Think of a key image from the poem. Why did you visualize the image? What does the image mean to you?

5. Do you like the poem? Why?

6. What does the poem say about life?

"Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike
Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,
Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off
Before it has a chance to go two blocks,
At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth's Garage
Is on the corner facing west, and there,
Most days, you'll find Flick Webb, who helps
Berth out.
Flick stands tall among the idiot pumps-
Five on a side, the old bubble-head style,
Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low.
One's nostrils are two S's, and his eyes
An E and O. And one is squat, without
A head at all-more of a football type.
Once Flick played for the high-school team, the
Wizards.
He was good: in fact, the best. In '46
He bucketed three hundred ninety points,
A county record still. The ball loved Flick.
I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty
In one home game. His hands were like wild
birds.
He never learned a trade, he just sells gas,
Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while,
As a gag, he dribbles an inner tube,
But most of us remember anyway.

Wizards.
He was good: in fact, the best. In '46
He bucketed three hundred ninety points,
A county record still. The ball loved Flick.
I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty
In one home game. His hands were like wild
birds.
He never learned a trade, he just sells gas,
Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while,
As a gag, he dribbles an inner tube,
But most of us remember anyway.
His hands are fine and nervous on the lug
wrench.
It makes no difference to the lug wrench,
though.
Off work, he hangs around Mae's
Luncheonette.
Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays
pinball,
Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon
phosphates.
Flick seldom says a word to Mae, just nods
Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers
Of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads.