History
The neighborhood in this city encompassed only three square miles, and teemed with black artists, intellectuals, writers, and musicians.
What is New York City?
A literary device that compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The poet who wrote "I, Too", "Harlem," and "Dreams."
Who is Langston Hughes?
The original singer for the song, "What a Wonderful World."
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The Harlem Renaissance poet who said, "A dream deferred is a dream denied."
Who is Langston Hughes?
This is the specific time in 1920s in which creative and intellectual life flourished within African American communities.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A literary device that uses descriptive language to improve the reader’s experience through their senses.
What is imagery?
Who is Claude McKay?
The original singer for the song, "It Don't Mean a Thing."
Who is Duke Ellington?
The Harlem Renaissance writer who said, “If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.”
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Alain Locke said the Harlem Renaissance was this for African American artists and thinkers.
What is “a spiritual coming of age?”
A literary device that uses words that begin with the same sound and are placed close together
What is alliteration?
Poet who wrote "From the Dark Tower" and "Saturday's Child."
Who is Countee Cullen?
The original singer for the song, "Strange Fruit."
Who is Billie Holiday?
Harlem Renaissance poet who said, “Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The origins of the Harlem Renaissance lie in this term of the early 20th century, when hundreds of thousands of black people migrated from the South into dense urban areas that offered relatively more economic opportunities and cultural capital.
What is the Great Migration?
A literary device that refers to word choice and phrasing in any written or spoken text.
What is diction?
The poet who wrote "nineteen twenty-nine" and "hard time blues."
Who is William Waring Cuney?
The original singer for the song, "This Joint is Jumping."
Who is Fats Waller?
Harlem Renaissance writer who said, “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
The economic boom that had allowed African American culture to flourish in the 1920s was about to end. In October 1929, a stock market crash sparked what is now known as this.
What is the Great Depression?
A literary device that uses words that sound like they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
Double points if spelled correctly!
The poet who wrote "Common Dust" and "Foredoom."
Who is Georgia Douglas Johnson?
The original singer of the song, "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do."
Who is Bessie Smith?
The Harlem Renaissance writer who said, "Call them from their houses and teach them to dream."
Who is Jean Toome?