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Harlem Renaissance Unit Vocabulary and Poetry Terms

Keep track of important literary and poetry terms in your binder during this unit. Explore words like Renaissance, Rhythm, Refrain, Rhyme, and more. Learn about sonnets, tone, and different poetic forms through examples from renowned writers. Enhance your understanding and appreciation of poetry.

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Harlem Renaissance Unit Vocabulary and Poetry Terms

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  1. Harlem Renaissance Unit Vocabulary Keep track of the words during this unit on your own in your binder. Literary terms should be separate from vocabulary words.

  2. Poetry Terms (Literary terms) • Renaissance • Rhythm • Refrain • Rhyme • Repetition • Jazz-expressive lyrics; improvised rhythm • Metaphor • Synesthesia, page 857 • Sonnet • Italian/Petrarchan, page 847 • English/Shakespearean, page 847 • Quatrain • Iambic pentameter • Tone (explicit vs. implicit) page 859

  3. Tone—How do you find it? • Direct narration from the narrator. • Comments about other people • Descriptions of the setting • Dialogue • How do certain people talk? • Word Choice • Sentence Structure and Length

  4. Vocabulary Words from Hurston’s Essay p. 859 cosmic miscellany exultingly Deferred Unsheathed Menial Weary vs. wary Accursed Vain hailed • pallor • Syncopated (p. 844) • constrained • Inglorious (p. 850) • extenuating • Raiment • keenest

  5. Sonnets: Write ONE of Your own for Thursday Italian English 14 lines Divided into four parts: 3 quatrains and one rhyming couplet Rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg Iambic pentameter (five pairs of syllables with the first unstressed and second stressed) See page 850 “If We Must Die” • 14 lines • Divided into two parts: one octave and one sestet • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba and cdccde or cdccdc • Iambic pentameter (five pairs of syllables with the first unstressed and second stressed) • See page page 848 “My City”

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