Poetry Unit: Terms, How to Analyze, and "Mother to Son"

Question 1

Langston Hughes wrote plays, novels, screenplays, and prose sketches for newspapers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What does the T in ARTWARS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Tone

Question 3

What should you think about when reading a poem?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 4

Why does the speaker have tacks, splinters, and torn up boards on her stairs?

Accepted Answer

Her life has not been easy

Question 5

What is a meter in poetry?

Accepted Answer

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 6

What does going into darkness without any light represent?

Accepted Answer

A lack of faith and hope

Question 7

What type of dialect appears in "Mother to Son"?

Accepted Answer

Black Urban Dialect

Question 8

How may a poem change from the start to the end?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 9

Where is Langston Hughes identified with?

Accepted Answer

Harlem

Question 10

Eight line octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba; six-line sestet with the rhyme scheme cdecde.

Accepted Answer

Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet

Question 11

What is diction?

Accepted Answer

The writer's or speaker's choice of words

Question 12

Which is an example of a simile?

Accepted Answer

It was as light as a feather.

Question 13

A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people

Accepted Answer

Dialect

Question 14

Repetition of accented vowel sounds in words that are close together

Accepted Answer

Rhyme

Question 15

What is a symbol?

Accepted Answer

Something that stands for both itself and something else

Question 16

In "Mother to Son," what do the stairs represent?

Accepted Answer

Life

Question 17

Which phrase has been repeated throughout the poem?

Accepted Answer

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Question 18

What does it mean to be "reachin' landings"?

Accepted Answer

Goals met and periods of peace

Question 19

How many times should you read a poem?

Accepted Answer

Two or three times

Question 20

Two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme

Accepted Answer

Couplet

Question 21

What time period was "Mother to Son" written?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 22

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Accepted Answer

Blank verse

Question 23

What can falling off the stairs signify?

Accepted Answer

Addiction

Question 24

What is the theme?

Accepted Answer

The central idea or insight revealed by a work of literature

Question 25

Which of these may affect a poem's meaning the most?

Accepted Answer

The time period it was written

Question 26

A comparison of two unlike things without using a connective word developed over several lines

Accepted Answer

Extended metaphor

Poetry Unit: Terms, How to Analyze, and "Mother to Son"

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Poetry Unit: Terms, How to Analyze, and "Mother to Son"

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