This is Dunbar's poem about interior vs. exterior faces.
A. What is "We Wear the Mask"?
B. What is "Sympathy"?
What is "We Wear the Mask"?
100
This is the earlier poet who inspired Langston Hughes, who said his poetry was "beaming of democracy for all".
A. Who is Emily Dickinson?
B. Who is E. E. Cummings?
C. Who is Walt Whitman?
C. Who is Walt Whitman?
100
This is the tone of Arna Bontemps' poem "A Black Man Talks of Reaping".
A. What is bitter, frustrated, and helpless?
B. What is optimistic, compassionate, and hopeful?
A. What is bitter, frustrated, and helpless?
100
It is Dunbar's poem that paints a picture of a sympathetic connection to a caged bird.
What is "Sympathy"?
100
It is a collection of wild animals that have been captured for an exhibition.
What is a menagerie?
200
This is what the caged bird yearns for in "Sympathy".
What is freedom?
200
This is the viewpoint of Hughes in "I, Too".
A. What is optimism?
B. What is pessimism?
A. What is optimism?
200
This is where the speaker envisions fruit to be in "The Tropics in New York".
Where are trees?
200
It is the main metaphor in "A Black Man Talks of Reaping".
What is a comparison between a farmer sowing seeds and not owning the harvest to the poor rewards African Americans received even after slavery as they struggled to make an independant life for themselves?
200
"The Glass Menagerie" is a ____ play; the many theatrical techniques used, including hazy lighting, contribute to this effect.
What is memory?
300
This is what the outside world is like in "Sympathy".
What is alive and inviting?
300
This is a theme of "Dream Variations".
A. What is the idea that everyday life provides room for expansive creativity?
B. What is the idea that dreamers should have room to be creative and rest peacefully at night but don't in reality?
B. What is the idea that dreamers should have room to be creative and rest peacefully at night but don't in reality?
(The poem is written as a "dream" not a representation of reality)
300
The message of "Any Human to Another" can best be described as an example of this.
A. What is irony?
B. What is hyperbole?
C. What is an understatement?
A. What is irony?
300
It is a symbol for "the ills I sorrow at" in "Any Human to Another".
A. What is a tent?
B. What is a lake?
C. What is an arrow?
D. What is a sword?
C. What is an arrow?
300
He is the narrator of the play, as well as a character.
Who is Tom Wingfield?
400
This is who African Americans didn't have to hide their true feelings from in "We Wear the Mask".
A. Who are whites?
B. Who are Jesus and God?
B. Who are Jesus and God?
400
This is where the speaker of "I,Too" must eat at the beginning of the poem, symbolizing the way things are.
Where is the kitchen?
400
According to "Any Human to Another", this is something less common than sorrow.
What is joy?
(The poem says, "Joy may be shy, unique,/ Friendly to a few/ Sorrow never scorned to speak...", indicating that sorrow is more common than joy.)
400
This is a historical population movement that contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
400
This is a symbol of the play.
(There are many; only list one) :)
What is the glass unicorn, the fire escape, the movies, Mr. Wingfield's portrait, jonquils, the moon, candles?
500
This is what concealment protects.
What is a sense of pride and dignity?
500
2X BONUS!
This is a common theme of "I,Too" and "Dream Variations".
(Multiple possible answers)
What is establishing an identity distinct from the identity that the white community and history of slavery had established?
500
How does the first stanza of "The Tropics in New York" differ from the second stanza?
(Guess the answer not the question...) :-)
The first stanza uses direct language to speak of a steel and concrete city, but the language of the second stanza is romantic and softened with time, showing haziness of memory and providing almost a religious quality.
500
This type of symbol was often used in HR works.
What are agrarian symbols?
500
This is a major theme of the play.
(only have to list one)
What is Abandonment vs. Duty?
Alienation vs. Connection?
Reality vs. Illusion and Escape?