Poems
In the poem, “I, too” this poet uses a dining table to symbolize exclusion and eventual equality?
Langston Hughes
This author wrote "Song of Myself" and believed in celebrating individual freedom.?
Walt Whitman
This was a time in the 1920's when Black artists, poets, and musicians shared their voices. What is this movement called?
Civil Rights movement
What literary device is this?
"Where the yellow-crown’d heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well,"
Anaphora
In "The Wound-Dresser" Whitman describes helping soldiers during this war?
The civil war
In "The Story of an Hour," this author explores a women's surprising reaction to her husband's death.?
Kate Chopin
In "If We Must Die," this poet encourages people to fight back with dignity for civil rights. Who is the author?
Claude McKay
What is metonym?
A word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated
In "Vigil Strange I kept on the Field One Night," the speaker says goodbye to who?
a fallen comrade/soldier
his Native American writer described her tough experiences in boarding school in "The School Days of an Indian Girl"?
Zitkala-Sa
In "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," Hughes says young Black poets should be proud of what?
Their identity/culture
What is apostrophe?
When a speaker directly addresses someone who is not present, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea as if it were alive and capable of responding
In "Facing it," Komunyakaa reflects on which war and its lasting impact?
The vietnam war
This Beat poem imagines shopping with Walt Whitman in "A Supermarket in California."
Allen Ginsberg
In Harlem, Hughes asks what happens to a dream that is...
Deferred
What is 1 characteristic of a sonnet?
14 line poem
follows a specific rhyme scheme
In "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100," Espada honors these workers who died during 9/11?
Restaurant workers/regular people
In "Women on the Breadlines," this author shows how hard it was for women during the Great Depression?
Meridel Le
This McKay poem shows love and hate towards America at the same time
America
What is enjambment?
when a line carries an idea or thought over to the next line without a grammatical pause