[Sadie And Maud Poem Literary Devices
Betty Neyhart
The following texts are a great resource for building meaningful and rigorous lessons for Black History Month, or for year-round learning. Each author or poet has multiple texts available on CommonLit, and each lesson includes skills-based comprehension questions, multiple choice and open-response assessment questions, paired texts, related media, and more!
In this poem, the speaker sees a group of young men at a pool hall who are not at school. They ignore their responsibilities to have fun, and the speaker seems to predict or imply that the young men know that this lifestyle will result in consequences. This poem is perfect for teaching figurative language and literary devices like rhyme, alliteration, and tone.
In this poem, a speaker wonders what happens to dreams when they are postponed. The poem uses several similes to suggest what might result from delaying dreams, making it a great text for teaching figurative language.
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