Early Life
Hughes
Hughes's Career as a Writer/Poet
Hughes's Poetry
Major Accomplishments
100
He was born in this year in this place
What is 1902 in Missouri
100
Give an example of slant rhyme to use emphasis in the poem
What is sent, can't , and president
100
His writing helped shape this
What is Harlem Renaissance
100
He wrote a lot of his poetry about this style of music
What is jazz
100
He wrote this many collections of short stories.
What is 3
200
How many siblings did he have?
He didn't, he was an only child.
200
This is what the poem is about
What is inequality of Blacks and Whites
200
Wrote this many books
What is 2
200
He wrote about and believed in communism for this reason
What is equality for everyone
200
He wrote this many novels
What is 2
300
His father left the family because of this
What is to escape racism
300
Hughes references this when referring to the lies written down
What is The Pledge of Allegiance
300
His first poem was
What is "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
300
Wrote poems that dealt with what?
The realistic portrayal of African Americans
300
He wrote this many books of poetry
What is 16
400
He started writing at this point in his life
What is during high school
400
This is the irony in the 4th and 5th lines
What is today we do have a Black President, but in this time period less than a century ago, a Black President seemed absurd.
400
The First African American to do this
What is make a living solely from his writing and lectures
400
When did he publish "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
What is 1921
400
How many volumes of editorial and documentary fiction did he write?
What is 4
500
When did he graduate from Lincoln University?
What is 1929
500
When did Hughes publish his first novel?
What is 1930
500
How many autobiographies did he write?
What is 3
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