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  • Wrote about the black American culture in the 20’s-60’s
    Langston Hughes
  • A rhyme scheme is a
    rhyming pattern
  • They invented the sleeping bag. They wrote several poems from a child’s point of view.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
  • This person turned down three suitors due to religious reasons
    Christina Rossetti
  • They wrote a novel, inspired by a nightmare. Their spouse didn’t like it and, even though they’d written over 40,000 words, they threw it into the fire. They rewrote it as the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Robert Louis Stevenson
  • This person was among the first to use jazz rhythms and black dialect in his work
    Langston Hughes
  • A literary device that gives a human characteristic to an object
    Personification
  • This writer wrote a lot about dreams and is credited for influencing Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “I Have a Dream.”
    Langston Hughes
  • The perspective from which a story or poem is written
    Point of View
  • Rhyming pattern
    Rhyme scheme
  • This person was an invalid from birth because of weak lungs. They traveled most of their adult life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Two types of poetry
    Free and rhymed
  • The "Weary Blues" was written by whom?
    Langston Hughes
  • Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, So are you. What is the rhyme scheme?
    abcb
  • More than half of her poetry is devotional or related to their faith
    Christina Rossetti
  • This poet received a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr., stating, “I can no longer count the number of times and places…in which I have read your poems.”
    Langston Hughes
  • They wrote Treasure Island.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
  • What did Robert Louis Stevenson study in college?
    lighthouse engineering or law
  • This person had Graves Disease and cancer.
    Christina Rossetti
  • This person was educated in London by their mother, and all of the siblings became writers as well
    Christina Rossetti