Harlem Renaissance and Vocabulary

Define robust

• strong and fragile

• weak and fragile

• Strong and healthy

• big and brave

When did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

• During WWII

• Following WWI

• 1860's

• 1980's

Consonance means

• agreement between opinions or actions

• agreement of people

• agreement of countries

• agreement of policies

Where did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

• Boston

• NYC

• Detriot

• D.C.

What is an example of an alliteration?

• You are what you eat.

• His smile was a mile wide.

• The wind was howling last night.

• Hannah's home has heat now, hopefully.

Who are the big names associate with the Harlem Renaissance?

• Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, W.E.B. DuBois

• Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway

• Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte

• Shakespeare, Homer

What is an example of an onomatopoeia?

• It's raining cats and dogs.

• She was as busy as a bee.

• You are what you eat.

• The clock ticked all afternoon until it was time to leave school.

At what age did Langston Hughes write "The Negro Speaks of Rivers?"

• 45

• 17

• 32

• 10

Define Assonance

• repetition of vowel sound in poetry

• repetition of consonant sounds

• the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes

What does blithe mean?

• disagreement between two lovers

• agreement among supporters

• showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper

• writing a proper sentence with correct usage of capitalization, punctuation and grammar