Terms
What is imagery?
This is the racial group that was celebrated during the Harlem Renaissance.
What are African-Americans?
This is what the mother compares her life to.
What is a crystal staircase?
This is the rhyme scheme of the following lines:
"To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done."
What is ABCB?
This is the bird that is more likely to sing.
What is a caged bird?
This is what a group of lines in a poem is called.
What is a stanza?
This is the state where Harlem is located.
What is New York?
This is the type of poem "Mother to Son" is.
What is an extended metaphor?
"Night coming tenderly / Black like me" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
"His wings are clipped and / his feet are tied" describes which bird?
What is the caged bird?
This is the voice of a poem.
Who is the speaker?
This is the name of the movement of African Americans from the South to the North.
What is the Great Migration?
This is the author of "Mother to Son."
Who is Langston Hughes?
"On my heart-strings freedom sings / All day everyday" is an example of this.
What is imagery?
"Grave of dreams" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This is how the speaker feels about a certain topic.
What is tone?
These are the two other important aspects of the Harlem Renaissance, besides literature.
What are art and music?
This part of the staircase shows the reader that the mother has faced challenges in her life.
What are the parts that are torn up/tacks/splinters/bare?
This grammatical device is used in the last line of "Sylvester's Dying Bed": "In a great ... big ... night."
What are ellipses?
"and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom."
What is ABAC?
This is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
What is rhyme scheme?
This is how long the Harlem Renaissance lasted.
What is 5 years?
What is encouraging/inspiring?
"So I hollers, 'Come'ere, babies, / Fo' to love yo' daddy right!'" is an example of this.
What is AAVE?
"and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn" is an example of what two things?