Characters
"What are the names of the three boys who bully Langston at school?"
" Lymon, Errol, and Clem"
"The lady said the Langston who wrote these words is a poet. Seems more like a magician to me, pulling words from my heart I never knew I had"
Langston
The term for the widespread movement of African Americans in the 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West.
Great Migration
What does Henry usually ride to work on each day?
The el train
"An example of figurative language that compares using the words like, or as."
simile
"Who is the lady who feeds Langston and cares for him when his daddy is gone?
"Miss Fulton"
"I ain't gotta spend my days yessiring and nosiring. Just do the work, and collect my check at the end of the week. With enough to help out back home too. Helps me hold my head just a little bit higher..."
Henry/Daddy
A time in New York during the 1920s and 30s when a lot of cultrual and intellectual content was created by African-American people.
Harlem Renaissance
what's the name of the library where Langston discovers his namesake?
George C. Hall Branch
"repetition of the identical sound in a work, usually at the end of the line of poems "if you don't mind, and I have the time, i will be just fine....""
"What is the name of the librarian who helps Langston?"
"Miss Cook"
"Take back your library card? They don't do that. They mark the book damaged, maybe make you pay. Now that you got the pages they can fix it."
Clem
a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land...yet it was filled with injustice
sharecropping
what did Clem have to do to get all the pieces of the pages torn up by Lymon?
climb a fence.
An authentic voice that helps us see the story through his/her own eyes.... Its pros are that it evokes empathy, the cons are limited information.
"First Person Narrative"
"What is Langston's Mama's name?"
"Teena"
"For as long as I can remember. I always loved reading, so I didn't know what else to be. After I finished high school, i enrolled in college, just part-time at first..."
Miss Fulton
poetry that "demonstrates a rhythm or the feel of improvisation" and also poetry that takes a certain type of music, or musicians as its subject
Jazz Poetry
what did Langston used to play back home in Alabama with friends at lunch at school.
play marbles or climb tree
The main idea or purpose of a literary work. It's the universal message the story communicates.
Theme
"What is Miss Fulton's first name?"
"Pearl"
"Thou art not beautiful, yet thou hast a loveliness surpassing beauty."
What is one of the names of the other historical writers (not Langston Hughes) who are honored with their pictures hanging on the wall of the library that Langston notices?
What kind of pie does Miss Fulton make for Langston and his Daddy?
apple
when an author deliberately omits the subject to mirror authentic speech...example: "Never really thought much about Alabama's red dirt roads..."
"Conversational deletion"