Poem Structure/Style
Is there a rhyme scheme in the poem? If there is, what is it?
What is sometimes an ABAB?
What is no?
Where did Langston Hughes live in his life?
What is Ohio?
What is Illinois?
What is Mexico?
What ruined the American Dream?
what is the pioneer on the plains?
What are the two symbols that we mentioned earlier?
What are the patriotic wreath and the pioneer?
True or False? Langston Hughes related to animals in the poem?
What is true?
What do the first four lines in the poem have?
what is near rhyme?
what is rhyme?
True or False? Langston Hughes' father was always around?
What is False?
What must we redeem to make America, America again?
what is America's natural state?
What were the voices in the poem mentioned for?
What is to show the foundation of the country?
What is to show the struggles immigrants go through?
What is a historical event that Langston Hughes mentioned in his poem?
What is the slave trade?
What is the discovery of America?
What is immigrants coming to America?
What is the tone of the poem?
what is resentment?
what is redemption?
Why did he leave Columbia even though he loved it?
what is racial discrimination?
What do the italicized lines show?
What is the blindness of truth?
What line was repeated multiple times throughout the poem to show the speaker´s feelings?
What is (America was never America to me.)?
Why did Langston Hughes write the poem?
What is that he felt lied to his whole life?
Does the poem have an enjambment?
What is no?
Where did Langston Hughes go to University after going to Columbia?
What is Lincoln University?
What is the message of the poem? what does America need?
what is freedom?
What are one of the three major themes in the poem?
What is identity?
What is liberty?
What is hope?
What was his first published poem?
what is “The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
what is a literary device that he used in the poem?
What is alliteration?
What is irony?
What is parallelism?
Why did he live with his grandmother as a child?
What is because his mother was looking for a job and his father lived in Mexico.
Read these lines: Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung...
What literary device is used? What does it create?
What is showing parallelism and creating a definite pattern?
What literary period did he write in?
What is modernism?
What was the first sentence of the quote on the first slide of the slide show?
What is “What happens to a dream deferred?"