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DFI Literary Devices
Great Depression
Harlem Renaissance
The New Deal
Name that Poem from 2nd Semester
100
This is where characters speak to one another.
What is dialogue?
100
This U.S. President was elected in 1928 declaring "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before".
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
This upsurge in African American cultural expression took place here.
What is Harlem, New York?
100
This program, designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, became known as the New Deal, a phrase taken from a campaign speech in which this U.S. President had promised "a new deal for the American people."
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
100
The title of the poem by Countee Cullen is a French word that means "a scene or action stopped cold".
What is tableau?
200
This is any use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves.
What is figurative language?
200
People who were engaging in this bought stocks and bonds on the chance of a quick profit while ignoring the risks.
What is speculation?
200
This American art form evolved from African American folk music and has roots in African rhythms, European harmonies, and American gospel sounds.
What is jazz?
200
Although President Roosevelt agreed to a policy of this kind of spending - spending more money than the government receives in revenue - he did so with great reluctance.
What is deficit spending?
200
In this poem the speaker recreates the sounds and emotions he experiences while listening to an African American piano player singing the blues in a Harlem cafe.
What is "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
300
Future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome is suggested by the author.
What is foreshadowing?
300
On October 29th, the bottom fell out of the market and the nation's confidence.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
This world war brought African Americans of all ages and walks of life to the thriving New York City neighborhood called Harlem.
What is World War 1?
300
Dorothea Lange used a camera, and this form of jounalism, to capture the plight of the farmer.
What is photo-journalism?
300
In this letter-poem, Ezra Pound assumes the voice of a young Chinese wife as she laments her husband's long absence.
What is "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter"?
400
This is where an event occurs which is unexpected, in the sense that it is somehow in absurd or mocking opposition to what would be expected or appropriate.
What is irony?
400
Following the roaring 20's, the Great Depression consumed this entire decade.
What are the 1930's.
400
This famous Harlem Renaissance poet attended Columbia University, wrote the "Weary Blues", lived in Mexico, France, and Italy, and said his work was an attempt to "explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America".
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
This woman combined her deep humanitarian impulse with her great political skills to keep the president aware of pressing social issues.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
400
The refrain "In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo" is repeated in this poem about a man who yearns for the courage to assert himself and gain romantic love.
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
500
Language which describes something in detail, using words to substitute for and create sensory stimulation.
What is imagery?
500
The drought that began in the early 1930's and wreaked havoc on the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
"Incident" is a poem written by Countee Cullen that recounts a childhood incident that left an indelible mark in his mind about this cruel practice.
What is racism?
500
He organized the country's first all black-trade union.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
500
This was the most famous poem from WW II and told the story of how the speaker witnessed his own life and death.
What is "The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner"?