MLA
The formatting for the title of a poem.
What is in quotation marks with principal words capitalized?
"The delicious singing of the mother, or of the
young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or
washing"
The women are doing their housework.
What is summary?
He was born in Long Island?
Who is Walt Whitman?
Words that look like they should rhyme, but don't make identical sounds.
What is eye rhyme?
His America is jovial.
Who is the speaker in Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"?
The parenthetical citation for the first line from "I, Too."
What is (Hughes)?
"Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state"
But as a rebellious man stands up to a royal in government.
What is neither?
He first grew up in Jamaica and wrote about his experiences with racism there.
Who is Claude McKay?
The structure of Walt Whitman's poem.
What is free verse?
He is hopeful about the America of "tomorrow."
Who is the speaker in "I,Too"?
The parenthetical citation for the first line from "Mixed Feelings"
What is (Logic)?
"They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes"
When there are guests, I am forced to eat dinner in the back.
What is a paraphrase?
His full name is Sir Robert Bryson Hall II.
Who is Logic?
"And when we die, the same ditch gets dug"
What is alliteration?
He is part of two Americas.
Who is Logic?
The parenthetical citation for the second and third line of "To America" as a first reference to the poem.
What is (Johnson, lines 2-3)?
Paraphrase: "I, too, sing America."
What is I am also a contributor to the song of America?
One of his greatest poems was published right after he graduated high school.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The two poetic devices in "Rising or falling? Men or things?"
What are antithesis and rhetorical question?
The speaker believes there are two potential options for America.
Who is James Weldon Johnson in "To America?"
The correct signal phrase, integration, and citation for the last two lines of "America" as a second reference to the poem.
What is the speaker says, "Beneath the touch of Time's unerring hand, / Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand) (McKay 13-14).
Paraphrase: "Strong willing sinews in your wings? / Or tightening chains about your feet"
Would you rather us be strong fibers that make you able to fly or something that holds on to your feet and prevents you from moving?
List all three of the poets during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who are Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson?
The two devices in "How would you have us, as we are?"
What are rhetorical question and apostrophe?
"I stand within her walls with not a shred
Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer"
Who is the speaker in Claude McKay's "America"?