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“I, being born a woman and distressed” Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Salutamus” Sterling A. Brown
“Shall I Say, ‘My Son, You’re Branded’?” Georgia Douglas Johnson
”The Weary Blues” Langston Hughes
”The Ten Commandments of Charm” by Zora Neale Hurston
100

Along with publishing poetry and writing, Edna St. Vincent Millay participated in this art form

What is a play actor?
100

The character from Henry lV who said the epigraph in “Salutamus“

Who is Hotspur?

100
The intended tones that the opening question, “Shall I say, “My son, you’re branded in this country’s pageantry” brings 

What is despair and pessimism?

100

The nicknames given to Hughes in Harlem Renaissance culture

Who is the “Shakespeare of Harlem” and “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race”?

100

The book by Alain Locke that Horston contributed to

What is “The New Negro” (1925)?

200
Another writer from the guides, similar to Millay in that they both came from “humble beginnings” 

Who is Katherine Anne Porter?

200

The college Sterling A. Brown taught at for 40 years, following in the footsteps of his father

What is HBCU (Howard University)?

200

Johnson’s first collection centered around the struggles of womanhood

What is “the Heart of A Woman, and Other Poems” (1918)

200

The location where the poem takes place 

What is Harlem, Lenox Avenue bar?

200
Main technique used in the poem to critique social expectations  

What is irony?

300

The breakthrough work Edna St. Vincent Millay was encouraged to submit to The Lyric Year in 1912

What is “Renascence”?

300

Sterling A. Brown‘s 2nd collection of writing

What is ‘No Hiding Place’?

300

The theme Brown posed as artificial and illogical in the poem

What is racism?
300

One of Hughes’ most famous poems where he amplifies the voices of black people 

What is “I, Too”?

300

The era the work was rediscovered and where it was published

What is in 1990 for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority magazine?

400

What literary device is used in line 9 that shows a shift in thought by using the word “however”

What is a volta?

400

Analysis essay written by Sterling A. Brown while he was teaching

What is “Negro Character as Seen by White Authors” (1933)?

400

The play that relates to the poem “Shall I say, ‘My Son You’re Branded’?” and represented the fear of lynching that defined black social life

What is ’A Sunday Morning in the South’?

400

The structure used in the second stanza

What is AAB?

400

A type of language that progressed the irony of the peice

What is faux-Biblical language?
500

The poetic meter used in the octet of Edna St. Vincent Millay‘s “I, being a woman and distressed”

What is an iambic pentameter?

500
The philosophy in Brown’s writing that “urged readers to recognize morally worthy life is not something immediately achieved”

What is a realist?

500

American racial pageantries (politics) in the poem are described as..

What is theatrical performances?

500

The phrase repeated in lines 6-7 meant to mimic a song’s sound

What is “He did a lazy sway…”?

500

Hurston studied this during her time spent in Florida

What are folk customs and idiomatic languages?