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"Mother to Son"
"Those Winter Sundays"
"Pause"
Differences
Random Knowledge
100
This person is the author of the poem.
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
The author of this poem is:
Who is Robert Hayden?
100
The speaker in the poem is waiting for this to happen.
What is his daughter getting home from school?
100
Out of the three themes we were given, which did I choose to focus on?
What is family?
100
If you are late to class, you are condemned to this punishment.
What is gum duty?
200
The mother in the poem compares her life to this.
What is a staircase?
200
The speaker's father does this in the poem.
What is heating the house in the winter?
200
The poem is narrated mainly in the ____ person.
What is the second person?
200
Of the three poems, this one does NOT contain an important female character.
What is "Those Winter Sundays"?
200
Who was president during the moon landing?
Who is Richard Nixon?
300
The staircase "ain't been" made of this:
What is crystal?
300
The speaker and his family were _____ to what his father did.
What is indifferent?
300
This is something unique about the style or structure of the poem.
What is the fact that there are only two sentences?
300
This poem is the only one of the three that makes heavy use of dialect.
What is "Mother to Son?"
300
When jump-starting a car, the positive battery terminal on car A must be connected to this battery terminal on car B.
What is the positive terminal?
400
The mother in the poem feels compelled to give her son advice for this reason.
What is the fact that they share a familial bond?
400
The tone of this poem is:
What is regretful/grateful/apologetic?
400
The poem takes place during this season.
What is winter?
400
This poem is the longest of the three.
What is "Pause"?
400
The state motto of North Carolina is _____.
What is "esse quam videri?"
500
The speaker makes use of these in order to get her message across.
What are colloquialisms?
500
The speaker uses these two adjectives to characterize "love's offices."
What are austere and lonely?
500
"Pause" originally appeared in what publication?
What is the New Yorker?
500
This poem is the only one of the three that involves a parent depending on a child.
What is "Pause"?
500
Due to the events of the Civil War, this Southern city did not celebrate the Fourth of July again until the 1940s.
What is Vicksburg, Mississippi?