Harlem Renaissance Poetry
Year of the start of Harlem Renaissance poetry.
What is the year 1921?
A a group of lines arranged together.
What is a stanza?
The year the Harlem Renaissance began.
What is the year 1920?
A form of narrative verse meant to be sung or recited.
What is a ballad?
Type of music most popular during the Harlem Renaissance. (Two answers)
What is jazz? What is blues?
Poet who wrote I, Too during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Pattern of rhyme usually found at the end of lines of poetry.
What is rhyme scheme?
Location of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Harlem, New York?
A brief poem filled with melody and emotion.
What is a lyric?
Singer of "Strange Fruit" during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Billie Holiday?
Type of poetry created by Langston Hughes' poem 'The Weary Blues.'
What is jazz poetry?
When the opposite of what is expected to happen actually happens.
What is irony?
The movement that started the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
A form of picture-poem in which letters and words are arranged to create a visual effect.
What is concrete poetry?
The instrument Louis Armstrong played.
What is the trumpet?
First Harlem Renaissance poetry book published.
What is Harlem Shadows (by Claude McKay)?
An object or a person place or thing that can exist on its own, but can also stand for something else.
What is a symbol?
The goal of the Harlem Renaissance.
To celebrate black life and identity, rejecting degrading stereotypes.
A form of light verse which is always 5 lines long. The first, second and fifth lines rhyme and contain three strong beats.
What is a limerick?
First woman singer from the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Gladys Bentley?
Last poetry book published before the end of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is God Sends Sunday?
Language which has a deeper meaning.
What is figurative meaning?
The reason for the end of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Depression, which reduced financial support for artists?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse?
This singer won the title "First Lady of Song" and the "First Lady of Jazz" for her musical talent.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?