After reading Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” (p. 594), read pages 602-604: Gwendolyn Brooks on Writing: “Hearing ‘We Real Cool’.” Answer the following questions:
What makes the last line of the poem effective for the poem?
What poetic designs or structures of the poem stand out to you and how do they function with poetic interpretation?
1. Define quatrain.
2. Define couplet.
3. Define poetic conceit.
4. Define sonnet.