4 Written Questions

1. (1850s) Created by Ralph Waldo Emerson; believed all things are "alike" in the sense that that all living things have an "over soul" so they are connected by a spark of divinity; spiritual presence responsible for the creation of all (over soul); all living things are equal and demand the same respect; earliest abolitionists and environmentalists, optimists; Utopian society...perfect society and all people are good; not very logical or rational; experimental with literature; relevant in poetry and literature
2. (1917-2000) wrote for a black audience and told the hardships; focused on the youth; includes musical rhythm
3. (1930s) movement among African-American artists; time-period where slavery is abolished but their rights are not fully accepted; proving that blacks were just as good as white artists; show to white America how hard it is to be black
4. (1819-1892) first to master free verse; changed the face of American poetry; uses cataloging, parallelism, assonance, alliteration, consonance, and paradox; extravagant with words; celebrated universal brotherhood; his poetry was not accepted until Ralph Waldo Emerson endorsed it; his poetry was public; loved democracy and America; patriotic; friends with Lincoln; abolitionist

4 Multiple Choice Questions

1. (1809-1892) English Writer; his friends dies; his brother was an opium addict, his father had mental breakdowns, and his brother was in an insane asylum; he was almost not married; he was the most popular Victorian Era poet
   1. Harlem Renaissance
   2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
   3. Emily Dickinson
   4. Lord Alfred Tennyson
2. (1806-1861) usually writes about her love for her husband; married to the famous poet Robert Browning; Robert was her Savior; her father thought of her as an invalid
   1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
   2. William Shakespeare
   3. Lord Alfred Tennyson
   4. Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. (1928- ) was abused; "I know why the caged bird sings" is her auto-biography; the main topic of her poems are race; still-living; good friend of Oprah; writes in rhymed verse a lot; uses a lot of sound devices
   1. Emily Dickinson
   2. Walt Whitman
   3. Transcendentalism
   4. Maya Angelou
4. (1830-1886) fell in love with a man who did not love her back which put her in a deep depression; stayed in her room of her father's house; wore only long white flowing gowns; personal poems and not public; 1500 of her 1800 poems are about death; uses a lot of nature writing ie: graveyards and orchards; unconventional use of punctuation and capitalization; influenced by transcendentalism
   1. Maya Angelou
   2. Walt Whitman
   3. Emily Dickinson
   4. Harlem Renaissance

3 True/False Questions

1. William Shakespeare → (1930s) movement among African-American artists; time-period where slavery is abolished but their rights are not fully accepted; proving that blacks were just as good as white artists; show to white America how hard it is to be black

   True        False

2. Langston Hughes → (1917-2000) wrote for a black audience and told the hardships; focused on the youth; includes musical rhythm

   True        False

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson → (1803-1882) Transcendentalist; was a minister for some time but stopped after his 19 year old wife died of tuberculosis; known for challenging traditional thought; poems were often called harsh and didactic; philosophy characterized by his relying on intuition as the only way to understand reality

   True        False