African American

What era in life did they use traditional folktales?

• Black Consciousness

• Harlem Renaissance

• African Empire

• Long Freedom movement.

Answer explanation

During this time poetry wasn't really a big thing that was mainstream so people would teach lessons and give out story times through traditional folktales.

How many years did Harriet Jacobs live under her neighbor front porch?

• 10 years

• 7 years

• 15 years

• 4 years

Answer explanation

Harriet Jacobs was a slave who escaped her master and hid at her grandmother's house where she hid for 7 years under the front porch to escape capture.

Which ERA is this poem from?

I ask no monument, proud and high

To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;

All that my yearning spirit craves

Is bury me not in a land of slaves

• Reconstruction Era

  (1861-1900)

• Harlem Renaissance

• Black

  Conscience

• 1970s-Present

Answer explanation

Bury me in a free land -

this poem came out at the beginning of the Reconstruction era right before Congress passed the constitutional amendment to abolish slavery and the author is talking about how she doesnt wanna be buried in a land of slaves.

Let's build bridges here and there

Or sometimes, just a spiral stair

That we may come somewhat abreast

And sense what cannot be expressed

• Black Consciousness

• Long

  Freedom

  Movement

• Reconstruction

  Era

• Harelm

  Renaissance

Answer explanation

This poem "Interracial" speaks a lot about the growth that could happen during this time of life ( during the Harlem renaissance)

I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might

Can rob no man of his dearest right;

My rest shall be calm in any grave

Where none shall call his brother a slave.

• AFrican Empire.

• LOng freedom movement

• Harlem Renisaance

• Reconstruction era

The Caged Bird Sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

And his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom

• Harlem

  Renaissance

• Long-Freedom Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• 1970-Present

Answer explanation

The caged bird is a metaphor for the oppressed black Americans who are kept captive through racist policies.

She looked Fragile But had

high blood, runner's ankles,

Could endure, endure

She loved her rooted garden, her

Grand children, her once

Wild once young man

Woman Wander

As best they can

• Black Era

• Black Consciousness

• Harlem Renincance

• Civil Rights Era

Answer explanation

the black conscience movement was the need for black people to change their mentality from the idea of inferiority that has been long encouraged. this is when feminist poetry started becoming more and more popular

I have been prince to a kingdom of folk

and dishonored them. I have worn a white mask.

I have cut my hair to look less like me. I too

have sought to be anything other than the ashes

• 1980's- Present Day

• Harlem

  Reinsiance

• Long-Freedom Movement

• Civil-rights Era

Answer explanation

For far too long the struggle of black people has been overlooked by authority and to this day most african americans still struggle to find who they are, scared to be judged by others.

this poem talks about a black man's difficulty to grapple with his identity and his struggle in being a black person in a country that accepts white people and treats people of color with disdain.