Black Poetry

What theme from the Harlem Renaissance is most apparent in the poem "We Wear the Mask"?

• Duality (twoness)
• Urbanity (city life)
• Mix of high/low culture
• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The following lines from "FIfty Years" contains what literary device:
"Think you that John Brown's spirit stops? / 
That Lovejoy was but idly slain?"

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

What word best describes the tone of the following lines from "If We Must Die"?
"Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, 
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"

• Apathetic 
• Bored
• Defiant
• Disillusioned

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

What literary device does Georgia Douglas Johnson employ in her poem "The Heart of a Woman"?
"The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on"

• Allusion
• Duality
• Metaphor
• Paradox

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What literary device does Paul Laurence Dunbar employ in his poem "We Wear the Mask"?

• Allusion
• Symbolism
• Metaphor
• Paradox

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

What does Dunbar mean by the words "shivering bark"?

• A cold tree
• A dog barking while cold
• A ship at sea
• An airpline

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

What are subtleties? (from "We Wear the Mask")

• Hints
• Lies
• Whispers
• Attacks

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is guile? (from "We Wear the Mask")

• cunning/intelligence used to trick people
• An offensive smell
• Arrogance
• Trustworthiness

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

What literary term is related to writing about what life was like in the city (New York)? 

• Allusion
• Duality
• Urbanity
• Folk art

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who wrote the poem "Theme for English B"? (Hint: he was the only black student in his class.)

• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Scott Fitzgerald
• Jean Toomer
• Langston Hughes

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9