Poetry Under Pressure
A fourteen-line poem with three quatrains and a final couplet is called this.
What is a sonnet?
Lorraine Hansberry’s play was first performed on Broadway in this year.
What is 1959?
In MLA 9, this type of punctuation does NOT appear between the author’s name and page number in an in-text citation.
What is a comma?
A reference to another historical event, literary work, or famous figure is called this literary device.
What is an allusion?
A person described as “affable” would most likely be described this way.
What is friendly or approachable?
“The Lynching” uses this literary device by contrasting elevated religious imagery with horrific violence.
What is irony?
The title A Raisin in the Sun alludes to this Langston Hughes poem.
What is "Harlem" or "A Dream Deferred?"
When citing an online source, this information will not appear in an in-text citation.
What is a page number?
This is a specific type of metaphor that uses the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Someone who is “taciturn” tends to behave in this manner.
What is quiet or reserved?
In “Ballad of Birmingham,” the traditional musical structure sharply contrasts with the poem’s tragic subject matter, creating an ironic effect. It consists of an alternating 8 syllable by 6 syllable structure called this.
What is common meter?
The juxtaposition between George Murchison and Joseph Asagai are really about this character's search for an identity.
Who is Beneatha?
A research source that interprets or evaluates another source is called this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
he repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words is called this.
What is assonance?
If an argument is “lucid,” it is this quality.
What is clear or easy to understand?
The speaker in Langston Hughes' "I, Too" claims that tomorrow, he will be at this place when company comes.
What is at the table when company comes?
Unlike Jim Crow segregation in the South, the North often used this discriminatory housing practice.
What is redlining?
On a Works Cited page, this feature must appear after the first line in a citation that goes on for two or more lines.
What is a hanging indent?
A speech that begins with a very short story is using this type of literary device.
What is an anecdote?
A “fractious” classroom would most likely be characterized by this.
What is conflict, irritability, or unruliness?
McKay’s description of America as a “cultured hell” is an example of this literary device because it combines contradictory ideas.
What is a paradox or oxymoron?
Hansberry was the first Black woman to achieve this major theatrical milestone.
What is having a play performed on Broadway?
In MLA 9, a source with three or more authors uses this Latin abbreviation after the first author’s name.
What is “et al.”?
Malcolm X used this literary device about slaves and the descendents of slaves when he exclaimed: "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us!"
What is antithesis?
If a student remains “obdurate” despite evidence against them, they are being this.
What is stubborn or inflexible?