THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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It repeats a letter sound to imitate the sound of giggling.
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It draws readers in to create a smooth flow.
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It repeats a letter sound to highlight the insults being made.
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It draws readers’ attention to the playful mood of the poem.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Line 4. Making their mock at our accursed lot. The attackers harass in a humiliating way, almost celebrating their dominance over their victims. ("Mocking” is making fun of someone, except there is no fun in mocking.) The mocking is vicious and hurtful.
Detailed explanation-2: -“If We Must Die” is a Shakespearean sonnet written by the Jamaican poet Claude McKay in 1919. It is a poem of political resistance: it calls for oppressed people to resist their oppressors, violently and bravely-even if they die in the struggle.
Detailed explanation-3: -If we must die-let it not be like hogs The simile “let it not be like hog” motivates the audience to die with dignity, it does this by implanting the thought of dying like a hog, since hogs often die a brutal and cruel death this simile motivates the audience to die a righteous death.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is the purpose of the alliteration in line 4? It repeats a letter sound to imitate the sound of giggling. It draws readers in to create a smooth flow.