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Literature, culture, poetic devices of the Harlem Renaissance
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1
Identify poetic devices in the following: "He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool."
alliteration
simile
assonance
metaphor
2
Thousands of African Americans settled in Harlem, in which state?
New York
California
Washington
Indiana
3
Historical event that forced artists to disperse and end the Harlem Renaissance is called...
The Great Awakening
The Great Migration
The Great Depression
The Great Diaspora
4
The Harlem Renaissance lasted from...
1900-1907
1940-1946
1920-1930
1952-1960
5
Many African Americans migrated from the South to the North because...
They were searching for new opportunities
They were looking for a way to escape slavery
They were only allowed to attend college in the North
There was a larger audience for the arts in the North
6
The Harlem Renaissance was driven by the popularity of what type of music?
heavy metal
classical
jazz and blues
rock and roll
7
Jean Toomer had a special perspective in the Harlem Renaissance, because
He had a brother on Broadway
He was from Jamaica
He moved to Mexico
He was of mixed race
8
Langston Hughes first began writing poetry in...
elementary school
seventh grade
college
eleventh grade
9
Countee Cullen wrote mostly about...
universal issues
white society
the life of a sharecropper
racism
10
The literature of the Harlem Renaissance is about...
imagination and creativity
slavery and its aftermath
pessimism and injustice
any aspect of the African American experience
11
"They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes," contains which devices?
onomatopoeia
assonance
alliteration
metaphor
12
James Weldon Johnson held all of the following jobs, except...
steamboat captain
teacher
song writer
lawyer
13
Claude McKay's famous peom, "If I Must Die" was quoted by...
Harry Truman
President Obama
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
14
Writers, artists, and musicians were forced to leave Harlem after the Renaissance because...
Artists & musicians moved to Hollywood;creative culture died
The leaders of the NAACP shut Harlem down.
The government forced them to go back to the South
They were unable to support themselves financially
15
The artistic pieces produced during the Harlem Renaissance are all united because...
They are all written in the same style
They are focused on life of African Americans at that time
They are all poems
They are all written about positive things
16
Determine poetic devices in the following: "But, ah! Manhattan's sights and sounds, her smells"
consonance
alliteration
simile
personification
17
Name of historical event when millions of African Americans moved from the south to the north..
The Great Migration
The Great Depression
The Great Awakening
The Great Diaspora
