Edgar Allen Poe
Who was Edgar taken by when his mother had passed?
John Allen
What did the 7 rooms symbolize? what did the last room symbolize?
The stages of life, ending with death
What literary movement was Amanda Gorman apart of?
Feminism Movement
Name 1 of the 9 essential elements of Hip Hop.
Emceeing (the study of divine speech), Break dancing, Dj-ing, Graffiti Art, Beat Boxing, Street fashion, street language, street knowledge, street entrepreneurialism
Where was Edgar's father during his childhood?
He abandoned him.
What "plague" spreaded quickly killing people off painfully in the story?
The Red Death
What literary movement was Edgar Allan Poe apart of ?
Romanticism Movement
Name 2 types of poems.
Epic, Ballad, Limerick, Haiku, Sonnet
What College did Edgar Allan Poe attend?
University of Virginia
Thinking they could escape, what did prince Prospero do?
Locked him and his peers in his "fortified" abbey
What literary movement was focused on the creativity of African Americans ?
What movement was Tupac's mother apart of? that was also founded by Amiri Baraka.
Black Power Movement
What disease/illness killed his mother and wife?
Tuberculosis
What did the ebony clock represent in the story?
the time of their lives ticking away.
Who were considered "the leaders" of the Harlem renaissance ?
Langston Hughes, W.E.B Du Bois and more
What's a Dynamic character?
One who undergoes a significant change throughout the story.
What branch of the military was Edgar Allan Poe join?
The Army
Mentioned in the slide show, during the time of the publishing of this short story, what illness was there an outbreak of?
Tuberculosis outbreak
what movement was artistic cultural to fight against racial injustice?
The Harlem Renaissance
What's an Assimilationist? as it was mentioned in the play "A raisin in the sun"
Someone who adopts the norms and values of a valued group