THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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He is turning in his theme on colored paper.
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His life experiences make him what he is, and that will come out in his writing.
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The teacher will automatically be prejudiced against his paper.
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The teacher will be able to tell it was written by a black person.
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Detailed explanation-1: -7. Which line best expresses the reason for the change in the speaker’s attitude? “But I sighted the distant horizon."
Detailed explanation-2: -’Theme for B English’ contains both irony and alliteration to emphasize the speaker’s challenges with the writing assignment. The irony highlights how as the only African-American student, he feels as an outsider to the class, and he does not want to lose his connection to Harlem.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Theme for English B” is a poem about the complexities of identity in a racist society. Its speaker-a black student at Columbia University in the 1950s-receives an apparently straightforward assignment: to write one page about himself.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Theme for English B” Summary "Theme for English B” tells the story of a young Black college student whose instructor has given him a writing assignment (a theme). The assignment must be one page long and “true, ” according to his instructor. The speaker questions whether the assignment is really that simple.