Vocabulary
A word that means unlikely to happen.
What is improbable?
The word that describes a set of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The poem that begins with "My heart be brave, and do not falter so"
What is "Sonnet"? by James Weldon Johnson.
A word that describes what the "heavy foot" causes in "Litany for Survival."
What is oppression?
A word to describe both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
What is abolitionist?
A word that means to start out or begin the process of something.
What is embark?
The process of using the same word or phrase multiple times throughout a poem or text.
What is repetition?
The text that states: "the midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism."
What is The Letter to Harriet Tubman From Frederick Douglass?
The country JFK wanted to beat in the "Race to Space."
What is The Soviet Union?
A word that describes something unreal.
What is illusion?
What we call the narrator of a poem.
What is the speaker?
The text that states: "If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred."
What is JFK's Race to Space Speech, or "We Choose to go to the Moon"?
The literary device used by JFK to show how far mankind had come.
What is a metaphor?
A word that is both a type of poem and a title of a particular poem.
What is Sonnet?
A word that means to push away unpleasant thoughts.
What is dispel?
What we use to label the rhyme scheme of a poem.
What are letters?
The poem that includes, "And when the sun rises we are afraid /it might not remain / when the sun sets we are afraid / it might not rise in the morning"
What is "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde?
What the speaker of "Sonnet" implies we should have in dark times.
What is hope?
The location that William Ernest Henley wrote "Invictus" from.
What is the hospital?
A word that describes a person or group of people under the tyrannical control of another group.
What is oppressed?
The word to describe sounds or beats created by stressed syllables in a poem.
What is rhythm?
The poem that uses the rhyming words gate and straight and scroll and soul.
What is "Invictus" by William Ernest Henely?
The two things that are juxtaposed by William Ernest Henley in "Invictus."
What are circumstances (things he can't control) vs. himself (what he can control)?
An action that the speaker of "Litany for Survival" says it's better to do.
What is speak?