Poetic Devices
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence from one line of poetry to the next so that the reader's through process is not interrupted
Jeer
Make rude and mocking remarks
What is the title of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem in which he repeats the line "I know why the caged bird sings"?
Sympathy
A countless or extremely great number
Myriad
"Sympathy" author
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Apostrophe
A poetic de vice in which the speaker addresses an absent person or non-human object or idea as if it were human
Vile
Extremely unpleasant
In which poem does Claude McKay articulate complicated feelings that he has for America, which he feel has both harmed and supported him?
"America"
Physical strength and good health
Vigor
Wrote about having mixed feeling about America
Claude McKay
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in the same line
Deferred
Withheld or delayed until a stated time
McKay pointing out that the climate in the north changes and change is good is an appeal to his audience's sense of:
pathos
logos
ethos
pathos
Calm or send to sleep
lull
Wrote about a "caged bird singing"
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The repetition of words or phrases through multiple lines of a poem
Anaphora
Barren
Which of the following most likely describes Dunbar's purpose in writing "Sympathy"
a) to depict the plight of a caged bird
b) to articulate the yearning for freedom
c) to mock the enslaved
To articulate the yearning for freedom
A chest
Bosom
Wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and was one of the most prolific authors of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
A figure of speech in which one word stands in for a greater whole
Synecdoche
Guile
Sly, cunning, intelligence
a) sympathetic and will acknowledge a truth
b) hostile and will learn from it
c)will be neutral and consider a deeper meaning
A) sympathetic and will acknowledge a truth
The intention or desire to do evil
Malice
List three poets from the Harlem Renaissance
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes