Harlem
Frost
Rivers
Literary Devices
Miscellaneous
100
Name a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who are Hughes, Hurston, Du Bois, etc.
100
Who wrote “The Road not Taken”?
Robert Frost
100
Name one river mentioned in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
Euphrates, Congo, Nile, Mississippi
100
What is a simile?
Comparing two things using like or as
100
What are the five human senses?
See, Taste, Touch, Hear, Smell
200
Who wrote Harlem? (First Name, Last Name)
Langston Hughes
200
Why does a poet use repetition?
To emphasize something, or draw attention to it.
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
200
Give an example of imagery in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
200
What is a metaphor?
comparing two things without using like or as
200
Where is the Mississippi River located?
The United States, flowing from Minnesota in the North to the Gulf of Mexico in the South
300
State one fact about the Harlem Renaissance
Years it took place, where is harlem, why did it occur, etc.
300
What is Robert Frost saying about decisions in “The Road Not Taken”?
Making decisions is more important than the outcome, different decisions can result in very different results.
300
Give two reasons why rivers are important.
Trade, Water Source, Farming, Bathing, Travel etc.
300
What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing.
300
What do you need to do to the first line of a paragraph?
Indent!
400
Give an example of imagery from the poem, "Harlem"
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
400
What is a harness?
400
Give an example of personification in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
"singing of the Mississippi "
"I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. "
“I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset”
400
“I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep” is an example of what literary device?
Personification
400
What is a hut?
500
Make a silly sentence using alliteration.
Alliteration is repetition of a sound at the beginning of words. (peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)
500
In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” why did the speaker continue on his journey?
He had made a promise, and had much further to go before he could rest.
500
“I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset” is an example of what literary device?
Imagery, Metaphor
500
“My soul has grown deep like the rivers” is an example of what literary device?
Simile
500
Make a silly sentence with at least THREE rhyming words.
Rhymes are words that end in a similar sound. The words are not always spelled the same!