PLEASE I NEED HELP Read each question and discuss it with your classmates. Then write down the
answers your group comes up with. If you do not have access to classmates, you
may answer each question on your own.

1. Describe an effect of the alteration in Gwendolyn Brooks's poem "Truth."

2. Explain how the connotation of a word in Emily Dickinson's 'A Book" adds to the
poem's message.

3. Langston Hughes's poem "Mother to Son uses an extended metaphor of a stair to
say that life has been a difficult joumey. 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 Phills Wheatley's 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.