The Poems
This poem compares a snake to a jeweled band.
What is Rattlesnake?
Heart and Hard are examples of this type of rhyme.
What is slant rhyme?
Dr. King gave his speech on this date.
What is August 28, 1963?
This is the tree that the girl says she'll walk to.
What is the Oak?
This is the term for the grouping of lines in a poem.
What is Stanza?
This poem tells us to understand the winter, we have to have a mind of nothing.
What is The Snowman?
This device stresses the vowel sounds in line of poetry.
What is Assonance?
In the opening of his speech, Dr. King alludes to this famous speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This is the first person to meet the soldiers at the house.
Who was the old man?
This is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is Iambic?
This poem uses personification of trees to make its point.
What is Who Has Seen the Wind?
This device stresses the final consonant sounds in a line of poetry.
What is Consonance?
Dr. King uses allusions to these two books of the Bible in his speech.
What are the books of Amos and the book of Isaiah?
This is the reason the story is called A Gray Sleeve.
What is the soldiers saw a gray sleeve in the window?
What is meter?
This poem contrasts noisy, urban life to the peace of the grave.
What is "Walking the Noisy Streets?
This device stresses the first consonant sounds in a line of poetry.
What is Assonance?
Dr. King's extended metaphor was this.
What is a check?
The Captain had these orders if they found any Confederates in the house.
What was burn the house and execute the people?
This is the term for a poem that doesn't rhyme.
What is free verse?
This poem alludes to the Nativity to make a far darker point about change.
What is The Second Coming?
point: “turning,” “widening,” “cannot,” “blood‑dimmed,”
“drowned.” are all examples of this.
What is Consonance?
Dr. King dreams that one day his children will be judged by this, and not that.
What is the content of their character and not the color of their skin?
This was Stephen Crane's most famous novel.
What was The Red Badge of Courage?
This the term for a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is Dactylic?