Harlem Renaissance and Poetry Review

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  1. 4. the pattern of rhymes in a poem is called the rhyme _____ .
  2. 5. Over a million African Americans moved from southern states to northern cities during the Great ______.
  3. 7. A stanza with four lines
  4. 8. an indirect comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
  5. 10. attributing human traits to something nonhuman
  6. 14. The word “renaissance” means ______.
  7. 15. The number of lines in a sonnet
  8. 16. Johnson's poem "My City" is an example of this traditional poetic form.
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  1. 1. The poem “Harlem” ponders what happens to a dream ______.
  2. 2. The best-known writer of the Harlem Renaissance is Langston ______.
  3. 3. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close together
  4. 6. language that appeals to the senses
  5. 9. According to Hurston, her age when she became colored.
  6. 11. a grouping of lines of poetry
  7. 12. Laws passed to enforce racial segregation in the US were called Jim _____ laws.
  8. 13. A stanza with two lines