The Movement
What event is often considered to mark the final end of the "Harlem Renaissance" period?
The 1935 Race Riots
Name one of the three places that is believed to be the possible birthplace of Countee Cullen.
Louisville, Baltimore, New York City
Where was Claude Mckay originally from?
Jamaica (Sunnyville)
To what country did Langston Hughes father migrate to?
Mexico
The lines in a poem are called...
Verses
Which artistic form first attracted the attention of non-African Americans towards the cultural movement taking place in Harlem
Music (Jazz)
Provide the name of at least two Countee Cullen poems seen in class
Incident
Yet do I Marvel
Brown Girl Dead
From the Dark Tower
Name one poem by Claude McKay
-America
-If We Must Die
What's the name of Langston Hughes first published poem?
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
A poem's stanza made up of four lines is called a
quatrain
Name at least one of the factors that prompted the massive migration of African Americans from the rural areas of the South towards the big urban centers in the North?
-Toughening Jim Crow laws in the South
-Discrimination in the South
-Lack of opportunity for growth
-Persecution by the Ku Kux Klan
What was the most prominent aspect of Cullen's literary style?
His elevated language and his technical perfection (in forms such as the ballad & the sonnet)
What religious denomination did McKay embrace in his later years that softened his literary tone?
Catholicism
What important connection does Langston Hughes have with Hispanic Literature?
He translated for the first time to English the full works of Gabriel Garcia Lorca and Gabriela Mistral
Define the three main requirements of a classic ballad
-Tells a story
-Has an alternating rhyming scheme
-Made up of two or three quatrains
Why were some of the early civil rights activists often frustrated with the "Harlem Renaissance" artists?
The movement was more about expressing themselves and succeeding as artists than pushing the case for racial equality.
From what university did Cullen obtain his Masters degree?
Harvard University
Name one of the places were McKay studied in the US.
-Tuskegee Institute (University)
-Kansas State College
Langston Hughes was a huge fan of what other famous poet?
Walt Whitman
Define a sonnet
-A 14 verse poem with iambic pentameter and a rhyming scheme that includes the last two lines rhyming with each other.
What was the name of the Puerto Rican boy whose clash with the police ignited the riot that closes the Harlem Renaissance era?
Lino Rivera
What is the name of the magazine of which Cullen was the editor?
Opportunity
In 2012 one unknown original novel by Mckay was discovered in the archives of what university?
Columbia University
What is the name of the famous poet with whom Langston had a chance meeting that propelled him to fame
Vachel Lindsay
What is iambic meter?
It is the number of regular sets of iambs (paired syllable sets) where the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed.