“I, being born a woman and distressed” Edna St. Vincent Millay
Along with publishing poetry and writing, Edna St. Vincent Millay participated in this art form
The character from Henry lV who said the epigraph in “Salutamus“
Who is Hotspur?
What is despair and pessimism?
The nicknames given to Hughes in Harlem Renaissance culture
Who is the “Shakespeare of Harlem” and “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race”?
The book by Alain Locke that Horston contributed to
What is “The New Negro” (1925)?
Who is Katherine Anne Porter?
The college Sterling A. Brown taught at for 40 years, following in the footsteps of his father
What is HBCU (Howard University)?
Johnson’s first collection centered around the struggles of womanhood
What is “the Heart of A Woman, and Other Poems” (1918)
The location where the poem takes place
What is Harlem, Lenox Avenue bar?
What is irony?
The breakthrough work Edna St. Vincent Millay was encouraged to submit to The Lyric Year in 1912
What is “Renascence”?
Sterling A. Brown‘s 2nd collection of writing
What is ‘No Hiding Place’?
The theme Brown posed as artificial and illogical in the poem
One of Hughes’ most famous poems where he amplifies the voices of black people
What is “I, Too”?
The era the work was rediscovered and where it was published
What is in 1990 for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority magazine?
What literary device is used in line 9 that shows a shift in thought by using the word “however”
What is a volta?
Analysis essay written by Sterling A. Brown while he was teaching
What is “Negro Character as Seen by White Authors” (1933)?
The play that relates to the poem “Shall I say, ‘My Son You’re Branded’?” and represented the fear of lynching that defined black social life
What is ’A Sunday Morning in the South’?
The structure used in the second stanza
What is AAB?
A type of language that progressed the irony of the peice
The poetic meter used in the octet of Edna St. Vincent Millay‘s “I, being a woman and distressed”
What is an iambic pentameter?
What is a realist?
American racial pageantries (politics) in the poem are described as..
What is theatrical performances?
The phrase repeated in lines 6-7 meant to mimic a song’s sound
What is “He did a lazy sway…”?
Hurston studied this during her time spent in Florida
What are folk customs and idiomatic languages?