I Hear America Singing
The group celebrated by this poem.
What is the working class?
The conflict that this poem is centered on.
What is the American Civil War?
What group of people were massacred in this historical event?
What Elizabeth Cady Stanton was advocating for.
The race of the speaker of this poem.
The author of "I Hear America Singing".
Who is Walt Whitman?
The relationship between the speaker and his fallen comrade.
What is a father and son relationship?
A religious movement known that arose among Indians of the Great Basin, and then spread, in the late 1880s, to the Great Plains and promised to restore the way of life of their ancestors.
What is the Ghost Dance?
The year all American women finally gained the right to vote.
What is 1920?
The words repeated in this poem that convey the theme.
What is "I, too"?
The speaker's tone or attitude.
What is confident or proud?
The main shift(s) in this poem.
The Sioux Spirital Leader who wrote about what he witnessed during the Massacre.
Who is Black Elk?
The meaning of solitude.
What is the state of being alone?
"I, Too" was written as a response to this poem.
What is "I Hear America Singing"?
Techniques used by this author to create the theme that America is strengthened by the working class and by its diversity.
What is repetition and word choice?
The speaker's tone or attitude.
What is calm, peaceful, sad, proud?
The estimated number of Sioux men, women, and children killed by American troops with machine guns.
What is 146-300?
The structure Stanton uses to emphasize the large amount of spaces women are invovled in and to provide specific examples.
What is listing?
The historical and cultural movement that Langston Hughes was a part of.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The literary and cultureal movement the author was a part of that emphasized the lives of ordinary people.
What is American realism?
The fact that made the vigil strange.
What is the fact that a father had to watch over and bury his son?
The leader of the Sioux who was killed when he resisted arrest by the American government.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's two main arguments.
What is we all deserve equality because we come into this world and leave it alone, and giving women equlaity is good for society?
The type of figurative language Langston Hughes uses when he says "Tomorrow, / I'll be at the table"
What is a metaphor?