Biography
His grandmother Mary Langston
What is a standard metaphor?
Standard metaphors are the simplest types of metaphors, where the comparison is clear and direct. Metaphors compare/relate two different subjects.
What is the attitude of the poem?
The attitude of the poem is lamenting, mournful, and grieving of the things they have lost and the oppression they face living in America.
What is Langston Hughes regarded as the father of?
What are the series of sensory organs that sharks use to sense electromagnetic fields called?
Ampulla of Lorenzini
Where did Langston Hughes attend college
Columbia University
What is an extended metaphor?
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that extends over multiple lines, sentences, or very often, the work as a whole.
What is the theme of the poem?
Grief and discrimination
Why was he called "the poet of the people"
Because of his accurate depictions of everyday life and black culture.
What do I do? My computer isn't working!
Turn it off and on again.
How did Langston Hughes die?
Complications with surgery to treat prostate cancer
Implied Metaphors are a type of Metaphor that compares two things that are not alike without actually mentioning one of those two things.
Paraphrase:
"Caged in the circus of civilization".
They are enslaved together in the society of America
What did Hughes study before he became a poet?
Engineering and Chemistry
Shu was the Egyptian god of what?
The air.
What year was Langston Hughes born?
1901 or 1902
What type of metaphor is:
“Now they’ve caged me In the circus of civilization. Now I herd with the many— Caged in the circus of civilization.” (9-12)
extended metaphor
Where is the shift?
After the second stanza and before the third stanza.
What was Hughes accused of being during the 1920s
A communist
When did the battle of the Plains of Abraham take place?
1759
What was his first play called
Mulatto: A Tragedy of the Deep South.
What type of metaphor is:
“Now I herd with the many” (11)
Implied metaphor
What does the title tell us about the poem?
This poem could be about discrimination faced by many races with dark skin colors and persecution which connects to the idea of mourning and sorrow.
What was the name of the poem he wrote after he graduated high school?
The Negro Speaks of the Rivers
What did the first webcam stream at the University of Cambridge in 1993?
A coffee pot.