In "Because I could not stop for death"; death is characterized as these 3 things
What is driving a carriage, not scary, and not hurrying?
100
Name the five poems we read by Robert Frost.
What is "Design", "Birches", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", "The Road Not Taken" and "Once by the Pacific"?
100
The Harlem Renaissance is also known as this.
What is The New Negro Movement?
100
This award was won by TS Eliot
What is the Nobel Prize?
100
Richard Wright's birthplace.
What is on a plantation?
200
Emily Dickinson wrote approximately________ poems.
What is 1800?
200
Oh Captain, My Captain was written as an elegy for this person
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Hughes cited this (these) author(s) as an influence.
Who are Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman?
200
Eliot moved here after leaving America?
Where is London?
200
In "Black Boy", at the end of the story the narrator sees his father as___________________________________
What is a black peasant?
300
An example of onomatopoeia from "I heard a fly buzz when I died is:
What is buzz?
300
This is what the little boy does in Birches?
What is swinging on tree branches?
300
This is the metaphor in "Mother and Son" that is compared to life. (Life aint been no...)
What is a crystal staircase?
300
Ezra Pound said this at Eliot's funeral?
What is "Read him!"?
300
This is what/who Dave shoots with the gun in "The Man Who Was Almos' A Man"
Who is Jenny the mule?
400
This is Emily Dickinson's home state.
What is Massachusetts?
400
RANDOM VOCAB QUESTION - DAILY DOUBLE
Excessively eager to obey or please.
What is obsequious?
400
This is Langston Hughes' full name.
What is James Mercer Langston Hughes?
400
This is what happened to Eliot when he worked in a bank.
What is had a mental breakdown?
400
This is how the narrator in Black Boy changed?
What is stopped associating hunger with his father?
or
What is forgave his father?
500
This is when most of Dickinson's poems were published.
What is after her death?
500
Walt Whitman worked here during the war.
What is a hospital?
500
Name one of the similes from the poem "Harlem".
What is
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
500
TS Eliot spoke in a voice reminiscent of ____________________.
Who are the Puritans?
500
This is what happened at the end of "The Man Who Was Almos' a Man" BE SPECIFIC