Harlem Renaissance
This 1924 event brought Black writers together with white publishers and is considered the official launch of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Civic Club Dinner?
This poet celebrated jazz, blues, and Black vernacular in his work and asked "What happens to a dream deferred?"
Assimilationists believed Black artists should master these types of cultural forms to prove their equality.
What are traditional European/American (or classical) forms?
This device compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This common poetic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
This mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to urban centers helped create the concentration of talent in Harlem.
What is the Great Migration?
This jazz trumpeter and vocalist was one of the most influential musicians of the Harlem Renaissance era.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Nationalists argued for celebrating these distinctly African American art forms rather than imitating white culture.
What are jazz, blues, folk traditions, and Black vernacular?
This device gives human qualities to non-human things, like "Illness knocked at the door."
What is personification?
This rather rare poetic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
W. E. B. Du Bois edited this NAACP magazine that published many Harlem Renaissance writers.
What is The Crisis?
This poet favored traditional English poetic forms and is considered more assimilationist in orientation.
Who is Countee Cullen?
This Jamaican-born poet wrote militant, race-conscious verse and is considered nationalist in orientation.
Who is Claude McKay?
This is a direct comparison that says one thing IS another without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This term denotes a line consisting of seven feet.
This New York City neighborhood became known as the cultural capital of Black America in the 1920s.
This philosopher and Howard University professor promoted the concept of the "New Negro."
Who is Alain Locke?
The assimilation vs. nationalism debate reflected deeper questions about this strategic question.
What is the path to achieving equality in the US?
This device is a reference to a historical, literary, or cultural figure or event, like mentioning Tantalus or Waterloo.
What is an allusion?
This rare foot consists of two stressed syllables.
What is a spondee?
This musical form, characterized by improvisation and syncopation, deeply influenced the rhythm and structure of Harlem Renaissance poetry.
What is jazz?
This historian and archivist dedicated his life to collecting materials documenting Black history and culture.
Who is Arthur Schomburg?
This scholar and editor of The Crisis held a complex position, promoting the "Talented Tenth" while also emphasizing racial pride.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
This is when a concrete object or image represents a larger abstract idea or concept, like a dove representing peace.
What is a symbol?
A line consisting of eighteen syllables and six feet might be this meter.
What is dactylic or amphibrachic or anapestic hexameter?