Poetry Rhyme Scheme and Mood

City Autumn By Joseph Moncure March
   The air breathes frost. A thin wind beats
Old dust and papers down gray streets
And blows brown leaves with curled-up edges
At frightened sparrows on window ledges.
What is the mood?

• joyful
• annoyed
• gloomy
• puzzled

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I Dream a World by Langston Hughes
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
What is the mood?

• hopeful
• fearful
• agitated
• puzzled

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The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

• This stanza has a fearful mood
• This stanza has a baffled mood
• This stanza has a joyful mood
• This stanza has an irritated mood

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What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem?
--
Roses are red, (A)
We have the FLU. (B)
I can't smell anything (C)
And neither can YOU (B)

• A, C, A, B
• A, B, C, B
• A, B, C, C
• A, B, A, B

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Which word rhymes with all three?
butterfly
shy
multiply

• bite
• eye
• ugly
• many

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What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B A B C D A D
• No rhyme scheme
• A A B B C C
•  LMNOP

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What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

• AABB
• ABAB
• ABCB

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What is the rhyme scheme for these lines from “If”?
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
 If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

• AABB
• ABAB
• ABCB
• ABBA

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Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.
This is an example of:

• Imagery
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.5.5

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Fear knocked on the door.is an example of:

• Onomatopoeia
• Symbolism
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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