Puritan Poetry
Considered the First American poet.
Who is "Anne Bradstreet"?
Considered a Dark Romantic Poet & Author (originally born in Boston).
Who is "Edgar Allan Poe"?
The location for most Transcendentalist authors / writing.
What is "the Northeast"?
Contemporary of Zora Neale Hurston and author of "Harlem".
Who is "Langston Hughes"?
Poet who wrote "kitchenette buildings".
Who is "Gwendolyn Brooks"?
A poem about how faith and one's values last longer than material possessions.
What is "Verses upon the Burning of Our House"?
2 Romantic Ideals
Individualism
Nature
Imagination Over Logic
Focus on "the Common Man"
Who is "Emily Dickinson"?
The historical movement before / during the "Harlem Renaissance" that led to a mass movement to the North.
What is "The Great Migration"?
Sonnets typically contain a ______ / ______ format.
What is "problem / solution"?
The meter of "The Author to Her Book".
What is "Iambic Pentameter"?
In "I Hear America Singing", Whitman uses _______________ to make the various groups and jobs seem equal.
What is "Parallel Structure"?
In "Let America Be America Again", Hughes uses __________ (a type of punctuation) to indicate a conversation between the speaker and the poet.
What are "Parenthesis"?
The allusion that Jess uses to a film which promotes the KKK.
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
"The Author to Her Book" uses an extended metaphor of the book as a child. Another term for "extended metaphor" is
What is "Conceit"?
Slant Rhyme
Dashes
In "Song of Myself", Whitman argues that the body is the _______.
What is "the soul"?
"kitchenette buildings" is an ALMOST _________.
What is "sonnet"?
In Transcendentalism, connection with the Divine happens through ______.
The year that Bradstreet arrived in the Colonies.
What is "1630"?
In "The Mask of the Red Death", Prospero is an example of this type of character from Dark Romanticism, who suffers due to his own flaws.
What is "The Fallen Man"?
The time period (years) for Transcendentalism.
What is the "1830s - 1860s"?
The number of "pool players" and "We"s in "We Real Cool".
What is "7"?
The poetic term refers to a sentence crossing over two lines of poetry (Ex. "The North lies / waiting...")
What is "Enjambment"?