A Dream Deferred

^{The poet reveals the speaker's feelings mainly by?}

• Using personification to show the characteristics of a dream

• Using similes to describe what happens to dreams

• Using hyperbole to describe what happens to dreams

• Using contractions to describe dreams

The repetition of the word "like" emphasizes the speakers desire to?

• Find out what happens to dreams

• Give up on dreaming

• Escape from a bad dream

• ^{Have a nightmare}

Which line best communicates the speaker's feeling of what happens to a dream deferred

• does it dry up 
• or fester like a sore
• May be it just sag
• all of the above

What is the best summary of A Dream Deferred

• What happens to a dream that is put off

• what dreams are

• Why dream deferred

• Looking for a nightmare

The poet helps the reader understand how it felt to.....

• Forget about a dream

• be a dried up raisin

• not take care of a sore

• have a dream

Based on the first stanza, the reader can conclude that the speaker....

• hates having dream

• remembers all his dreams

• is curious of what happens to dreams

• would rather have a bad dream

dividing the poem into 3 stanzas allows the poet to-

• establish the message or theme of the poem clearly

• make it shorter

• look cool

• make it longer

The imagery in lines 1 through 8 helps the reader understand-

• what the reader thinks happens to a dream deferred

• what a dream looks like

• what dreams do

• to give up dreaming it's pointless