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Early Life
Children's Rhymes
Hughes's Career as a Writer/Poet
Hughes's Poetry
100
He was born in this year in this place
What is 1902 in Missouri
100
Give an example of slant rhyme to use emphasis in the poem
What is sent, can't , and president
100
His writing helped shape this
What is Harlem Renaissance
100
He wrote a lot of his poetry about this style of music
What is jazz
200
By the time he was 12 years old he had lived in this many cities
What is 6
200
This is what the poem is about
What is inequality of Blacks and Whites
200
Wrote this many books
What is 2
200
He wrote about and believed in communism for this reason
What is equality for everyone
300
His father left the family because of this
What is to escape racism
300
Hughes references this when referring to the lies written down
What is The Pledge of Allegiance
300
His first poem was
What is "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
300
Wrote poems that dealt with these 3 issues
What is religion, black oppression, and black life
400
He started writing at this point in his life
What is during high school
400
This is the irony in the 4th and 5th lines
What is today we do have a Black President, but in this time period less than a century ago, a Black President seemed absurd.
400
The First African American to do this
What is make a living solely from his writing and lectures
400
What theme did Hughes stress in his poetry
What is "Black is Beautiful"