Poetry Question Stems

• How are ____ and ____ similar?
• Which line from the poem best expresses ___?
• The metaphor in line ____ is used to ____
• The poet uses a simile in line ___ to ___
• Dividing the poem into stanzas allows the poet to ___
• The ___ is important to the poem because it represents ___
• The poet likely intends for the last two lines to ____
• Based on stanza ____ the reader can conclude ____
• Which lines from the poems express a lesson that the speaker learns?
• In the poem, the speaker's mood changes from ___ to ___
• Both the author of ____ and the speaker in the poem would most likely agree that ___
• Read the lines from the poem- Which sentence from the passage express the same idea as the lines from the poem?