Language in 'If We Must Die'

English

Language which draws on the five senses to build pictures in your mind

The five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell and touch

A word or a phrase used to describe something as if it were something else

A word or phrase used to describe something by comparing it to something else using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

A word or phrase which draws on the five senses to build pictures

A word or phrase which sounds like the sound that it makes

Which of these is a simile to describe the treatment of the oppressed in the poem?

Which quotation includes brutal bestial imagery?

What can we call these letters: t, k, p d, g, and b?

Which of these words from the poem contains plosives?

To create harsh, violent but also inspiring sounds

Why does McKay use plosives in 'If We Must Die'?

When and where was the Harlem Renaissance?

A cultural and intellectual movement led by African-American artists

The person or people who are doing the cruel and unfair things

The person or people who are suffering from being treated cruelly or unfairly

The treatment of a group of people in a cruel and unfair way

Treating people in a dignified and noble way

The treatment of a group of people cruelly because of their religion

The treatment of a group of people fairly because of the colour of their skin

The treatment of a group of people unfairly because of the colour of their skin

The treatment of a group of people unfairly because of their gender

A time of mass violence, racist riots and murders in America, 1919

African-American servicemen returning from war

What did Claude McKay say about how his crew reacted to the poem?

What did Frank Harris say about the poem 'If We Must Die'?