1. Describe an effect of the alliteration in Gwendolyn Brook’s poem “Truth”

2. Explain how the connotation of a word in Emily Dickinsons “A Book” adds to the proms message.

3. Langston Hughes prom “Mother to Son” uses an extended metaphor of a stair yo say that life has been a difficult journey. Would the extended metaphor be more effective or less effective if it were a long path through the woods? Explain your answer

4. Identify one example of an allusion in Phillis Wheatleys poem “An Hymn to the Morning.” As a group, do some quick research on what the allusion references. Then, discuss the effect the allusion has on the poem

The poems you have to read are

1. Truth By Gwendolyn Brooks
2. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
3. Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
4. A Book by Emily Dickinson
5. An Hymn to the Morning by Phillis Wheatley