Unit 9: The Harlem Jeopardy

Background

100

Poet, novelist, playwright, and biggest name of the HR.  Raised by his grandma before traveling around the world by boat (with a red-haired monkey named Jocko); the busboy poet inspired by jazz and Walt Whitman.

Langston Hughes

200

Pioneering novelist best known for Black Boy and Native Son.  Born in Mississippi (the most racist state).  Published at 16; later, found employment with the Federal Writers Project.  Sick of racism in the US, lived in Paris last 14 years of life.

Richard Wright

300

Poet of unknown origin; adopted at 15 after whole family died; earned a Harvard MA, most well-educated HR writer; married W.E.B. DuBois' daughter; referred to as the "Black Keats." 

Countee Cullen

400

Folklorist, anthropologist, and political activist who wrote, Their Eyes Were Watching God.  On scholarship at Barnard College, she studied with Franz Boas.  Died broke and alone, but inspired contemporary AA writers like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison.

Zora Neale Hurston

500

Jamaican-born poet and novelist who served as a catalyst of the HR. Lived all around the world but considered Harlem his true home.  Toward end of life, embraced Catholicism, retreated from Communism, and became a US citizen.

Claude McKay

Stories

100

True or False: most HR authors lived in Harlem. 

False. Most DID NOT live in Harlem.

200

This ended the Harlem Renaissance: 

The Great Depression

300

This was the name given to the summer of 1919, in which anti-AA riots occurred in 26 cities across the United States. 

Red Summer

400

Name three factors that led to The Great Migration: 

racism, natural disasters, job opportunities, safety

500

This is the most significant lasting criticism of The Harlem Renaissance: 

still concerned with white approval

Poems

100

This is the number of tests you have remaining in this class (excluding the final exam):  

1

200

Hughes' writings helped popularize this genre of music: 

jazz/blues

300

In Native Son, Bigger's unexpected situation with the daughter of the Dalton family can best be described by this literary term:

Situational Irony

400

In "How it Feels to be Colored Me," Hurston claims that this quality determines her success: 

inner strength

I would also accept soul/spirit

500

In "Salvation," Hughes repeatedly compares himself and the other children in the church to lambs, which is an example of this literary term: 

Extended Metaphor

Terms

100

Hughes uses these two types of punctuation to command the flow and emphasis of his poem "What Happens to a Dream Deferred" :

Question marks and dashes

200

Hughes' "I, Too" is a response to THIS poem by THIS author from the Romantic era 

Need poem + author last name

"I Hear America Singing" by Whitman

300

This is a motif in Cullen's "Any Human To Another" : 

weapons/objects that cause physical pain

these weapons symbolize grief/sorrow in the context of the poem

400

In McKay's poem "America," the speaker is looking forward to this happening in America's future: 

Sinking into the sands

500

This is the main theme of Cullen's "Any Human To Another" : 

grief/sorrow can be lessened by sharing each other's burdens

Authors

100

This is an example of a Rhetorical Appeal: 

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

200

This is the term for an author's attitude about a subject: 

Tone

300

This is the literary term for drawing a conclusion based on elements of a story: 

Inference

400

This is the literary term for a subtle reference to another work of art, person, place, or event: 

Allusion

500

This is the term for a reader's feelings about a subject: 

Mood