Questions for “Rights to the Streets of Memphis”
Name ________________________ Date ____________ Hr __
Focus: Close reading of text, personification
Instructions: You may write on this paper. Neatly write (or you may type) thorough answers in complete sentences. You
may use the back of this sheet to continue answers.
1.
What is personified in the first paragraph? Write down all of the actions that this entity takes.
2.
What is the overall conflict in this story? What is the conflict the narrator faces specifically? How is the conflict
resolved?
3.
Why do you think the narrator says he won the rights to the streets of Memphis rather than he won the streets of
Memphis? What does he mean?
Questions for “Rights to the Streets of Memphis”
Name ________________________ Date ____________ Hr __
Focus: Close reading of text, personification
Instructions: You may write on this paper. Neatly write (or you may type) thorough answers in complete sentences. You
may use the back of this sheet to continue answers.
1.
What is personified in the first paragraph? Write down all of the actions that this entity takes.
2.
What is the overall conflict in this story? What is the conflict the narrator faces specifically? How is the conflict
resolved?
3.
Why do you think the narrator says he won the rights to the streets of Memphis rather than he won the streets of
Memphis? What does he mean?