Author Background
This author is known for his portrayals of African American life
Langstong Hughes
Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me
Doodle
What device is used here?
“He seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man’s.”
Characterization
What is a theme of Sympathy?
The pain of life without freedom fuels the desire to fight back
In “Sympathy,” when the bird beats his wings against the cage, he is fighting for his _____________.
freedom
This author was the son of slaves and made a living off of his writing
I know why the caged bird sings.
Narrator of "Salvation"
What device is used in “Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" ?
Metaphor
What is a theme of "Dreams"?
Holding onto dreams relinquishes the pain that comes with letting them go
Life without dreams is meaningless
“Autobiography of a Face” is considered to be what genre of writing?
Non-fiction
Memior
Took an overdose of sleeping pills and drowned in the bathtub
Sarah Teasdale
My pleasure at the sight of the children did not last long, however. I knew what was coming
Lucy
Which devices is used in the following quote?
“…threatening to sting if I miscrossed its invisible boundaries, like some science-fiction force field.”
Simile
Why does Langston Hughes use the metaphor “Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly” in his poem “Dreams”?
1) he took influence from Dunbar
2) birds are meant to fly and be free, if it's wings are broken it can't acheive it's purpose/it's useless, just like life without dreams
The speaker of "Dreams Deferred" believes what about dreams?
This author died of an apparent drug overdose after years of surgeries
Lucy Grealy
Hold fast to dreams.
"Dreams" Speaker
Which devices is used in “Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire.”
Alliteration
Why does Langston Hughes address the people of Harlem in his poem "Dream Deferred?"
He focuses the reader on African American culture and encourages the people of Harlem to continue to fight for equality
In "The Scarlet Ibis," the bird is a symbol for
Doodle
This author was writing in his spare time while he worked at a bank.
There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle
Brother
Which device best describes “They named him William Armstrong…such names sound good only on a tombstone.”
Foreshadowing
What does the word deftly mean in the following quote from Autobiography of a Face?
“For the most part I was an abysmal athlete, and I was deeply embarrassed whenever I failed to jump bravely and deftly into a whirring jump rope, ever threatening to sting if I miscrossed its invisible boundaries, like some science-fiction force field.”
skillfully
Who says this quote and what does it mean: "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.”
Pride is complex; it pushed him to encourage Doodle and help him, but it also pushed him towards Doodle's death.