unit 5 english Flashcards
what city did the Harlem Renaissance take place?
Manhattan
Before WW1 what was America’s attitude
Optimistic
Why was America very optimistic before WW1
The industrial Revolution was going good
Who was a prolific writer during the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
What is blank verse
when it doesn’t rhyme
Robert Frost wrote in what type of poetry
blank verse
Which literary style uses straight forward language
imagism
What is the genre of this is just to say
poem
How did the red wheel barrow demand attention?
It was glazed and was next to white chickens
What can we infer about the poem, a negro speaks of rivers?
He’s from Africa
Which writer wrote an essay about poetry
Ezra Pound
Who wrote the red wheel barrow
William Williams
Which writer has an ancestry from Africa
Langston Hughes
Which writer wrote about dreams
Langston Hughes
Which poet wrote in iambic pentameter
Frost
Who wrote poetry in as few words as possible
William Williams
Describe the literary style of Robert Frost
He portrayed the American lifestyle and landscape
What President asked Robert Frost to speak
JFK
The Negro speaks of rivers portrays the African American
Ancestry and culture
What is an object of an imagist poem
baseball
The poem out out portrays what
The harsh Realities of American life and how it must go on.
Who wrote in conditional forms with conventional language
Robert Frost
What types of writers concentrated on direct presentation of imagist
Imagist
What is the literary significance of a few don’ts by an Imagist
it is the philosophy of imagism and it establishes the essential that less is more
During the period 1914 through 1956 what was a major event?
WW1
The direct presentation of imagist is also known as what?
word pictures
