Langston Hughes #279753 - Prove ed esercizi Zanichelli

I, Too, Sing America: refrain

The refrain

A:

is 'I, too'.

B:

hints at the theme of inclusion.

C:

foresees a hopeful future.

D:

is pessimistic and desperate.

E:

is 'I will'.

F:

is linked to gender identity.

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Langston Hughes: life and works

Langston Hughes was internationally known as a ________, but employed many different literary forms.
Langston Hughes wrote two collections of ________: The Ways of White Folks and Laughing to Keep from Crying.
In 1930 Langston Hughes published the ________Not Without Laughter.
Langston Hughes was the author of a two-volume ________.

Completamento aperto

Langston Hughes: life and works

Tick the three works which were NOT written by Hughes.

A:

Leaves of Grass

B:

Fine Clothes to the Jew

C:

Shakespeare in Harlem

D:

The Weary Blues

E:

Cries and Whispers

F:

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Langston Hughes: Whitman's influence

Hughes shared with Whitman a ________ in the 'American dream'.
Hughes wanted to break down the distinction between ________ and prose.
Both Hughes and Whitman spoke through a mask that for Hughes coincided with his ________ group.
________ Whitman, Hughes acknowledged that justice did not exist for all the people of America.

Completamento chiuso

Langston Hughes: life and works

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Indiana, in 1902. As a child, he lived with his maternal grandmother in Kansas. She told him stories about war. He travelled to Africa and Europe, and worked as a sculptor. Then, thanks to a friend, he entered Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and graduated in 1929. He had a major role in the Brooklyn Renaissance.

Trova errore

Langston Hughes: black identity

As an ________ poet, Hughes spoke on behalf of the black lower classes.
Hughes looked to Africa as the symbol of a distant ________ that could not be recovered.
Hughes's poetry explores the theme of ________ offered in the United States to the black men.
In Hughes's view, the task of a ________ writer is the same as that of any other writer.

Posizionamento

Langston Hughes: music

A:

Hughes explored the roots of blackness, which he found in the folk innovations.

B:

Hughes saw jazz as a paradigm of the black experience and a metaphor for human life.

C:

Hughes held that jazz represented an alternative way of life.

D:

Hughes excluded black slang from his poems.

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I, Too, Sing America: main features

The title of this poem is an allusion to the poem I Hear America Singing by ________.
The speaker must be an African-American, a slave, a free man in the ________.
The speaker identifies himself as the brother with a ________ skin.
When white guests come to the house, the speaker eats in the ________.

Completamento chiuso

I, Too, Sing America: content

The speaker proclaims that one day he too will be sitting at the ________ when guests come and nobody will dare send him into the kitchen. The others will realise how beautiful he is and they will feel ________. The house, of course, is the United States, and the ________ of the house and the kitchen are never specified or seen because they cannot be embodied. This situation could symbolise having the same ________ as the whites.

Posizionamento

I, Too, Sing America: key ideas

Tick the words related to the key ideas of I, Too, Sing America.

A:

Darkness

B:

Strength

C:

Shame

D:

War

E:

Jazz

F:

Sister

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