"a total stranger one black day"
Complete the opening line: "a total stranger one black ___.
What is "day"?
Complete the famous line: "I, too, am ___.
What is "America"?
_______ are the speakers in "We Real Cool".
What is young people / students who skip school?
Complete the famous refrain: "Still I ___."
What is "rise"?
________ is an emotion that readers feel while reading this poem.
What is curious? OR
What is uneasy?
What is the specific term for Hughes' repetition of "I, Too"?
What is anaphora?
_________ is the first thing the speakers claim they do.
What is left school / skipped school?
The speaker acknowledges this about her past.
What is she has faced discrimination, pain, and oppression, but she refuses to let it define or defeat her?
The stranger's arrival affects the speaker in the following way.
What is it fundamentally transforms or disrupts the speaker's life and perspective?
________ is the extended metaphor in the poem.
What is the man being sent to eat in the back?
True or False: Brooks is celebrating the speakers' lifestyle.
What is false?
The speaker refuses to do this.
What is accept defeat, shame, or being kept down by discrimination and oppression?
The poem's central message is ________.
What is unexpected encounters or people can change our lives in profound ways?
"I, Too" respond to the exclusion and racism of Hughes's time in this way.
What is by asserting belonging and predicting inevitable change, Hughes challenges racism and inspires resistance?
The final line "We die soon" is significant because ________.
What is it reveals the consequences of their lifestyle and transforms the poem from a celebration of coolness into a warning about self-destruction?
Angelou used descriptive imagery to ________.
What is make the abstract concept of resilience concrete and tangible which allows readers to feel the speaker's power and determination?
How does the poet's use of lowercase letters and simple diction enhance the poem's meaning?
What is it creates a sense of immediacy and casualness that contrasts with the mysterious content to suggest that life-changing moments can arrive unexpectedly in ordinary ways?
The speaker predicts ________ will happen in the future.
What is they will sit at the table / be welcomed and acknowledged / discrimination will end and they'll be treated as equals?
The irony in "We Real Cool" is________.
What is the poem presents coolness and rebellion as attractive while hinting at their destructive consequences? OR
What seems cool is actually dangerous and self-destructive?
________ is a simile used in the poem.
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