Vocabulary
This person writes poems.
What is a "poet"?
Gene is a male student who is the ______________ of the story.
What is the "first-person narrator"?
“You’re as bright as anybody on this bus. Brighter than some.”
We’re rolling on through the night, and I can’t believe I’m hearing this.
This shows that the narrator _________ what Sharon says.
a. believes
b. does not believe
What is "does not believe"?
The speaker lives in ______________ at the Y.
What is Harlem?
The lines of a poem are called_________.
What are "verses"?
This word means to "to know its meaning well"?
What is to "understand"?
_______________ is a student who thinks Gene could be in the Advanced English class.
Who is Sharon?
"And I get this quick flash of tomorrow, in second period with Marty and Pink and Darla, and frankly it doesn't look that good."
This quote shows Gene's______________ about his regular English class.
What are his "thoughts"?
Since the speaker lives "at the Y," I can infer that _______________.
a. he likes sports
b. he cannot afford to live elsewhere
c. he likes letters.
What is "he cannot afford to live elsewhere."
The voice of a poem is called the _____________.
What is a "speaker"?
This means to be at a higher level.
What is "advanced"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The story "I Go Along" shows how Gene is a _______________ in the story's beginning but changes by _______________.
What is "thinking for himself"?
I know a story has a first-person narrator by the ___________ used in the story.
What are the "pronouns"?
"I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.
I went to school there, then Durham, then here
to this college on the hill above Harlem.
I am the only colored student in my class."
The speaker in "Theme for English B" describes his identity in the poem by his ______________.
What is his race or skin color?
Rhyme and rhythm are ways poems can make a poem similar to ________________.
a. a story
b. music
c. an essay
What is "music"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
1. This is a group of things that are similar.
2. This is a program or show.
1. What is a "category"?
2. What is a "program"?
Gene doesn't believe the poet's last poem, "High School" is a poem because____________________.
It tells about ordinary things like zits and locker combinations.
"hear you, hear me--we two--you, me, talk on this page."
These lines use commas and dashes make the poem____________.
a. rhyme
b. have rhythm
What is "have rhythm"?
The speaker describes his connection to his audience to talk about how people____________ in society.
a. are not connected
b. are connected
What is "are connected"?
Poetry is a _______________ of writing made of poems.
What is a "category"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
1. Someone or something that has the possibility to do or be something has this.
2. When you figure something out you do this.
1. What is "potential"?
2. What is "realize"?
Gene tells the story of "I Go Along" by sharing __________ thoughts.
a. his own
b. everybody's
What are "his own" thoughts?
"You are white—
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you."
This shows how the poem, "Theme for English B" explores _______________.
a. how the speaker feels about college
b. how the speaker feels people are connected.
What are "how the speaker feels people are connected"?
"It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me
at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.
hear you, hear me—we two—you, me, talk on this page.
(I hear New York, too.) Me—who?"
This word best describes the speakers feelings:What is "truthful"
A group of verses is called a ____________.
What is a "stanza"?