You and your partner need a piece

of scratch paper and something to

write with.
Also, get out your poetry terms
notes.
 Identify each of the following as an
example of assonance, consonance, or
alliteration.
1. “That perches in the soul - / … And never
stops – at all –”
2. “We / Strike straight.”
3. “Praise this mess / that can be left”
4. “On all four-footed things”
5. “which will lead all of the lost Indians home”
6. “Yet we’ll go no more a roving”
 Identify each of the following as an
iamb or a trochee.
1. hammer
2. giraffe
3. inject
4. thunder
5. monstrous
6. cabbage
 Identify each of the following as an
iamb or a trochee.
1. hammer
2. giraffe
3. inject
4. thunder
5. monstrous
6. cabbage
 Identify each of the following as an
anapest or dactyl.
1. buttermilk
2. sickening
3. resurrect
4. interrupt
5. heritage
6. comprehend
 What type of poetry is this: narrative,
dramatic, or lyric?
“Harlem”
BY LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?
 What is the primary type of figurative
language used in this poem?
“Harlem”
BY LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?
 What type of poem is this: narrative,
dramatic, or lyric?
“MORGAN’S CURSE” by Shel Silverstein
Followin’ the trail on the old treasure map,
I came to the spot that said, “Dig right here.”
And four feet down my spade struck wood
Just where the map said a chest would appear.
But carved in the side were written these words:
“A curse upon he who disturbs this gold.”
Signed, Morgan the Pirate, Scourge of the Seas.
I read these words and my blood ran cold.
So here I set upon untold wealth
Tryin’ to figure which is worse:
How much do I need this gold?
And how much do I need this curse?
 What is the rhyme scheme of this
poem?
“MORGAN’S CURSE” by Shel Silverstein
Followin’ the trail on the old treasure map,
I came to the spot that said, “Dig right here.”
And four feet down my spade struck wood
Just where the map said a chest would appear.
But carved in the side were written these words:
“A curse upon he who disturbs this gold.”
Signed, Morgan the Pirate, Scourge of the Seas.
I read these words and my blood ran cold.
So here I set upon untold wealth
Tryin’ to figure which is worse:
How much do I need this gold?
And how much do I need this curse?
 What type(s) of rhyme is used in this
poem?
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
 What is the rhyme scheme and meter
of this poem?
A man is haunted by his father’s ghost.
Boy meets girl while feuding families fight.
A Scottish king is murdered by his host.
Two couples get lost on a summer night.
A hunchback murders all who block his way.
A ruler’s rivals plot against his life.
A fat man and a prince make rebels pay.
A noble Moor has doubts about his wife.
An English king decides to conquer France.
A duke learns that his best friend is a she.
A forest sets the scene for this romance.
An old man and his daughters disagree.
A Roman leader makes a big mistake.
A sexy queen is bitten by a snake.
 What type of stanzas does this poem
use?
The Bat
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.

His fingers make a hat about his head.

His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.

He loops in crazy figures half the night

Among the trees that face the corner light.

But when he brushes up against a screen,

We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:

For something is amiss or out of place

When mice with wings can wear a human face.
 Identify the meter.
The Bat
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.

His fingers make a hat about his head.

His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.

He loops in crazy figures half the night

Among the trees that face the corner light.

But when he brushes up against a screen,

We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:

For something is amiss or out of place

When mice with wings can wear a human face.