The negro artist and the racial mountain was written in response to "The Negro Art Hokum" written by George S. Schyler. It was published on June 16, 1926 and was printed in “The Nation.” The word “hokum” means general nonsense. It says that the negro art movement was a nonsense and had no specific role to play on. He wanted to remove the stereotypes related to the negro art and literature which the society wanted to build.
Answer:
The oxymorons in Romeo’s dialogue emphasize his confusion about Benvolio’s advice.
Explanation:
An oxymoron is a figure of speech where two opposite words are used together to generate a third concept. Expressions like "O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!" shows how Romeo hopes that Benvolio would change his mind of preferring being a fighter instead of a lover.
Answer:
As Pete and Malia headed out the door on <u>their</u> way to the convention, they almost forgot the money they would need to get in <u>there</u>.
They were very excited to <u>buy</u> the latest edition of their favorite comic book <u>by</u> their favorite author.
Explanation:
Homophones are words that are pronounced the same way but have different meanings (and sometimes spelling).
In the first sentence, there are two homophones:<em> their </em>and<em> there.</em><em> </em><em>Their</em> is a word used to describe that something <em>belongs to them</em> (Pete and Malia's way - their way). <em>There</em> is the opposite of <em>here</em> and means <em>at that place </em>(get into the convention - get in there).
The second pair of homophones is <em>buy</em> and<em> by</em>. <em>To buy</em> is a verb that means <em>to purchase</em> something. <em>By</em> is a preposition used to state who is performing a certain action (a comic book by their favorite author - their favorite author wrote the book they are buying).
In the poem, Burning a Book, by William Stafford, is a poem describing a burning book, and then going to more dept of what it means. In the poem Stafford says, "More disturbing than book ashes are whole libraries that no one got around to writing." The meaning of this is that burning books is not as terrible as not writing them at all. Stafford is trying to say that if you have an idea for a book and you do not write the book, or start it, but never finish, then that is worse then burning a book that's already written. He also says , "If a book isn't written, no one needs to burn it---- ignorance can dance in the absence of fire." This is meaning that if you do not write book then it can not be burned, so instead of fire burning it, the lack of knowledge is burning the unwritten book. Do you agree with Stafford?