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

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

Basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem.

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

August Wilson passed away from liver cancer in?

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

The phrase "My Dungeon Shook" comes from?

August Wilson's 10 plays are known as?

The literal or primary meaning of a word.

Metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break.

1956 is the exact year in which the play starts?

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

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

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

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

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

Baldwin argues that white Americans often struggle to?

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.

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

August Wilson's mother was a cleaning lady.

What music inspired August Wilson in his writing of Fences?

During what decade does the play Fences primarily take place?

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

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

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

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

A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation.

Repetition of the sound of a vowel.

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

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

All 10 of August Wilson's plays do what?

August Wilson embraced dialect in his writing.

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

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

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

What is the format of The Fire Next Time?

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

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

Poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baldwin describes his early years in the church as?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rhetorical device in which writers identify differences.

The title The Fire Next Time is a reference to?

The book's tone is primarily?

Baldwin's critique of Christianity focuses on?

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

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

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

What does Baldwin say is necessary to achieve racial progress?

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

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

A pause near the middle of a line.

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

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

Baldwin uses personal anecdotes to?

Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds.

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

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

Baldwin grew up in which neighborhood?

August Wilson's father was a butcher.

The repetition of conjunctions in close succession.

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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

Having the form and musical quality of a song.