Harlem Renaissance Facts
The year that the Harlem Renaissance began
What is the year 1918?
The setting of "The Boy & the Bayonnet"
What is "June, early 1900's on the baseball field at his High School in Washington?
The comparison of two things not using the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
A group of 4 or more lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Mr. Gray's favorite superhero who lives close to the location of the Harlem Renaissance?
Who is Spiderman?
The Great event helped sparked the Harlem Renaissance
What is "The Great Migration"?
Another phrase for "habit of character"
What is character trait?
Typically used describe a shade of color
What is a Hue?
Poems usually use a technique meant to give words a deeper meaning
What is figurative language?
The best HBCU in the world, who's catch phrase is "Aggie Pride"
What is North Carolina A&T State?
This Jamaican poet wrote plenty of poems during the Harlem Renaissance, some titled "If We Must Die" and "I Shall Return"
Who is Claude McKay?
The sequence of events that add to and make up a story, sometimes it has a twist
What is plot?
To lose and still win a prize in order to make the loser(s) feel better
What is a Consolation Prize?
"Real G's move in silence like lasagna" rapped by Lil Wayne describes..
What is a simile?
The black pit bull that Mr. Gray lives with
Who is Benji?
The famous location where African Americans had to walk through the back door, can perform their acts but could not sit in the crowd as an audience member
What is the "Cotton Club"?
To stand around without no apparent purpose, usually in front of stores
What is loitering?
Two lines grouped together in a poem, usually rhyming
What is a couplet?
The greatest rapper of all-time, they became a famous rapper when they were 12
Who is Lil Wayne?
Gophers usually dig these, but their are 5 of them in New York City, Harlem being one
What is a burrow?
A superhero who's name ends in "man", also meaning the word all
What s "Omni"?
The three different words that can describe the person telling the poem
Who is the Poet, the speaker, and the narrator?
The year Mr. Gray's mom was born, the first ever heart transplant and the Vietnam War
What is the year 1967?