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Vocabulary
Authors
Quotations
Eras
Misc.
100
‘Buzz’ and ‘ boom’ are examples of what literary term?
What is onomatopoeia
100
Who wrote “The Real War Will Never get in the Books” ?
Who is Walt Whitman
100
“His huge beard is ridiculous on the reservation”
What is “Defending Walt Whitman” - Alexie
100
Name two eras that we studied in class
Any two of the following: Reconstruction, Industrial/Immigration, Slavery, Depression, Cold War, etc.
100
What is Hughes first name?
What is Langston
200
The title ‘Hills like White Elephants’ is an example of what literary term?
What is simile
200
Who wrote Bill Clinton’s inaugural poem?
Who is Maya Angelou
200
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit”
What is “The Tropics in New York” -McKay
200
What era did the space race occur in?
What is the 'Cold War Era'
200
True or False: Shakespearian, Italian, and Spenserian are all types of sonnets
What is True
300
When Dickinson says, “To dazzle gradually” she is using what literary term?
What is assonance
300
Who wrote a dramatic monologue/persona poem?
Who is Patricia Smith
300
“And I was born and raised right here”
What is “Skinhead” –Patricia Smith
300
In what era were the "Tropics of New York" and "America" by Claude McKay written in?
When was the Harlem Renaissance
300
Why did they cut the girls hair in “The School Days of an Indian Girl”
Variety of answers will be accepted...
400
What is the definition of metonymy?
What is the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
400
Who wrote “America, if we Must Die” and “The Harlem Dancer”?
Who is Claude McKay
400
-“From the other end of the earth from where I come, America was a land of living hope, woven dreams, aflame with longing and desire”
What is “America, and I” – Yezierska
400
Where was the beat movement centralized?
Where is New York City and San Francisco
400
What were the first and last names of the couple who was first approached by the stranger in “The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg”
Who are Edward and Mary Richards
500
To say “The White House called” is usingwhat literary term?
What is synedoche
500
Who wrote the ‘sonnet xli’?
Who is Millay
500
“Late last night, I decided to stop using English. I had been using it all day, talking all day”
What is “Kicking the Habit” - Inada
500
Name the most famous author that we studied from the Beat Movement/Generation
Who is Ginsberg
500
What are pogroms?
What are violent raids/massacres of specifically Jewish homes in Russia