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HR Poetry
Southern Gothic
Lost Generation
Modernism
100
These are three of the rivers mentioned by L. Hughes. This is the common thread/idea developed by the rivers.
What are the Euphrates, Nile, Congo, or Mississippi. What is that the rivers parallel the history of Africans/African Americans?
100
It came into being after this war.
What is World War I
100
This was another name for the 1920's.
What is the 'Roaring 20's' or the 'Jazz Age'?
200
This is the name for the movement of African Americans to these places.
What is the 'Great Migration' and Northern cities.
200
In "If We Must Die", what is the simile McKay uses involving hogs?
What is dying like hogs hunted by a pack of dogs?
200
Southern Gothic authors incorporated this quality in their writing, partly to brake away from the gentile stereotypes of the antebellum South.
What is the monster or the grotesque?
200
Many authors and artists would be classified as this-citizens maintaining residence in foreign countries.
What is an expatriot?
200
What form the EL Masters's poems take in "The Spoon River Anthology"?
What is the 'epitaph'?
300
L. Hughes uses this literary device in "Harlem". This is one side of each of his comparisons.
What is a simile? What is a dream deferred?
300
He was Emily Grierson's 'Rose'.
Who was Homer Barron?
300
Many of these individuals were inspired by their loss of faith and trust in the authority figures and structures that they had grown up with.
What is disallusionment
300
This was a term for women who embraced new trends in fashion and society in the 1920's.
What is a 'flapper'?
400
In "I, too" L. Hughes refers to these two rooms to show how African Americans are treated and how he thinks they will eventually be treated.
What are the kitchen and the dining room?
400
She walked quite a distance overcoming obstacles to get medicine for her grandson.
Who was Phoenix Jackson (Grandma Phoenix)?
400
E. Hemingway often wrote about this situation that soldiers in war experience.
What is being wounded in battle?
400
These were the names of the two characters in EA Robinson's poems. These where their fates.
Who are Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy? What are suicide and alcoholism?
500
In "Black Man . . . Reaping" this is the 'bitter fruit' mentioned toward the end of the poem
What is the progress toward equality, but not complete or full equality?
500
He was the crooked cross.
Who was Tom Shiftlet?
500
In "In Another Country" what tragedy did the major suffer?
What is the death of his new wife?
500
Modernist writing broke away from the formal, rigid structures of this era, and modernist writers incorporated short, pointed prose in their writing.
What is the Victorian Era?
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