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All 10 of August Wilson's plays do what?

Writer's attitude toward the reader and the subject of the message.

Rhyme in which either vowels or consonants of stressed syllables are identical

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.

Recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity.

Producing the sound resembling that of the s or sh in sash.

Poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

The placing of a sentence or sentence parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas.

When something (often tone, attitude) in a poem changes.

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds.

August Wilson passed away from liver cancer in?

A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation.

A pause near the middle of a line.

The quality of being pleasing to the ear through a harmonious combination of words.

What does Baldwin say is necessary to achieve racial progress?

For which two plays did August Wilson win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature?

After dropping out of school due to accusations of plagiarism, August Wilson continued his education where?

Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.

The second essay, "Down at the Cross," is largely a reflection on Baldwin's experiences with?

August Wilson's 10 plays are known as?

The termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line.

The point at which two lines of text are split; the end of a line.

In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin primarily addresses issues of?

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

The title The Fire Next Time is a reference to?

1956 is the exact year in which the play starts?

What is the format of The Fire Next Time?

Baldwin grew up in which neighborhood?

The omission or absence of a conjuction between parts of a sentence.

Baldwin's critique of Christianity focuses on?

A word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risque or indecent.

Baldwin's writing style in the book can best be described as?

Baldwin uses personal anecdotes to?

Group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

Having the form and musical quality of a song.

The literal or primary meaning of a word.

August Wilson's father was a butcher.

A moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way.

The submission of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.

August Wilson wrote all ten of his plays in chronological order.

An idea or feeling that word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Baldwin warns that if racial injustices persist, America could face?

The repetition of conjunctions in close succession.

A word, line or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of a poem.

During what decade does the play Fences primarily take place?

Rhetorical device in which writers identify differences.

What location was both the place where August Wilson grew up and the inspiration for his plays?

August Wilson embraced dialect in his writing.

Baldwin argues that white Americans often struggle to?

The emotional response the writer wishes to evoke in the reader.

Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.

Basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem.

Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style.

What social movement had its beginnings at the time period during which Fences is set and impacts events in the play?

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

Baldwin met with which famous civil rights leader while writing The Fire Next Time?

Formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named.

Metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break.

19-line poem with 2 rhymes throughout, consisting of 5 tercets and 1 quatrain.

Poem with three quatrains and an ending couplet. Rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

Wilson is known for taking racist stereotypes and converting them to?

A reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses--but no repetition of words.

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

What music inspired August Wilson in his writing of Fences?

What literary device does Baldwin use extensively in The Fire Next Time?

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

The book's tone is primarily?

Who was the leader of the Nation of Islam during the time Baldwin wrote The Fire Next Time?

An address to a dead or absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.

The phrase "My Dungeon Shook" comes from?

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

What does Baldwin see as one of America's greatest moral failures?

Repetition of the sound of a vowel.

Baldwin describes his early years in the church as?

In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin suggests that Black liberation must involve?

The first essay, "My Dungeon Shook," is written as a letter to whom?

August Wilson's mother was a cleaning lady.

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.