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Diction
100
Who is the speaker of the poem?
What is a wise old man.
100
Name the three rivers the speaker mentions in the poem
What is Nile, Congo, Mississippi, and Euphrates.
100
Is there repetition?
What is yes
100
What is the tone?
What is proud.
100
"I've known rivers refers to"
What is the speaker has a connection with rivers.
200
Who is the audience in the poem ?
What is grandchildren
200
What does the water from the Congo to the Mississippi indicate?
What is the route for the slave trade.
200
What is the allusion?
What is when Abe Lincoln goes down to New Orleans and saw the slave market and he was disgusted.
200
What is the meaning of the last line?
What is each river holds history like his soul.
200
"ancient as the world" refers to
What is the age of rivers to the age of the Earth.
300
who wrote this poem?
What is Langston Hughes?
300
What is the theme?
What is we feel deep connection to our ancestors.
300
What is the symbol in the poem?
What is simile between river and history.
300
"my soul has grown deep like the rivers" refers to
What is the the speakers soul has grown deep like the rivers.
400
what does the person speak of in the poem?
What is rivers.
400
What provides emphasis?
What is rivers(water flows) the rivers are mainly in the Middle East
400
Who is the speaker referring to when he says "I've known rivers"
What is he is referring to his ancestors and himself.
400
"raised the pyramids" refers to
What is the speaker is referring to the building of one of the Seven Pyramids of Wonder but we know he did not build one by himself.
500
How would you describe the speaker?
What is he has a special connection with rivers and he is a deep thinker.
500
What is the plot?
What is overall view of black history and culture.
500
How many speakers are there in the poem?
What is one.
500
" I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans" refers to
What is When Abe Lincoln sailed dow the Mississippi River, witnessing the horrors of slavery.