Who said this?
"They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong"
Who is Langston Hughes, "I, Too"?
The Harlem Renaissance took place here
What is Harlem, New York City?
In Walden Economy by Henry David Thoreau, he states "Men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before."
The best summary of this paragraph is:
What is humans tend to work their lives away without enjoying the fruit of their labor?
The main theme of "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe
What is the effects of isolation/alienation?
In "As I Grew Older", by Langston Hughes, the speaker says, "Bright like a sun -- my dream/And then the wall rose, rose slowly." In the line above, the 2 forms of figurative language used are:
What is a simile and a metaphor?
"Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"
Who is Claude McKay, "If We Must Die"?
In Langston Hughes's poem, "I, Too", the speaker, an African American man, is sent to the kitchen to eat. The kitchen is an extended metaphor for this:
What is the segregation and racial inequality experienced by African Americans?
Passage #1: From Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried...A man is relieved and [happy] when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.”
According to Emerson in passage #1, when can a person finally relax and be happy?
What is when they achieve their dreams?
In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, the raven is a metaphor for:
What is a metaphor for the ever-present grief the speaker feels about his dead wife, Lenore?
The rhyme scheme of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
What is ABCBBB?
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"?
In Langston Hughes' "Dream Deferred," describe how he feels about dreams
What is he feels as though the longer a person's dream is deferred, the more it hurts them?
Emerson states in Self Reliance: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you." Give the best paraphrase of this statement.
What is believe in yourself and ignore the criticism of others, accept your fate?
In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator wants this from the raven:
What is answers about the afterlife and the possibility of reuniting with his deceased love, Lenore?
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown"
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"?
Define the Harlem Renaissance.
What is an influential movement in African American literature, music, and visual arts that took place between 1918-1937?
Define the Transcendentalist movement.
What is a literary, religious, and philosophical movement that began in the late 1820s in the New England region of the United States?
Define the American Gothic movement.
A literary movement that started in America in the 19th century, inspired by the Gothic literature already established in Europe.
Iambic pentameter is made up of this many iambs/syllables.
What is 5 iambs/10 syllables?
"Men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost...It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before."
Who is Henry David Thoreau, "Walden Economy"?
Give at least three themes/topics of Harlem Renaissance literature.
What is challenging stereotypes, racism, segregation, discrimination, slavery, freedom, and dreams?
Give at least three themes/topics of Transcendentalist literature.
What is self-reliance, independence, ignoring the criticism of others, not following the rules of society, being one with nature, living minimally, and working hard to achieve your dreams?
Give at least three themes/topics of American Gothic literature.
Depiction of death or injury, dark or melancholy mood, supernatural elements, fear of the unknown, dark/confusing physical setting, grief, loss, sorrow, isolation/loneliness, hopelessness, rationality vs irrationality
In Self-Reliance, Emerson wrote: "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
The purpose of the underlined metaphor in the above passage is most accurately conveyed as:
What is Emerson is comparing life to farming to convey that a person must work hard to achieve their dreams in life just like a farmer must work hard to grow crops (corn) successfully?