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A word translated as “veerition” was coined by a poem in this language whose final line imagines fishing the “tongue of the night” in a “great black hole.” That poem in this language repeatedly mentions an inert town “at the end (20[1])of daybreak.” (20[2])A poet in this language wrote the collection Nocturnes (20[1])and poems “Prayer to Masks” (20[1])and “Black (20[1])Woman.” (*) The author of “Notebook of a Return (10[1])to My (10[1])Native Land.”used this language (10[1])to describe Caliban (10[1])demanding (10[1])to be called “X” (10[2])in the play (10[1])A Tempest. (10[1])While a (10[1])head-of-state (10[1])in 1983, Léopold Senghor (10[1])was elected as the first African (10[1])member of this language’s “Academy.” (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2])name (10[1])this language (10[1])used by Négritude authors (10[1])from (10[1])Martinique and Senegal. (10[2])■END■ (10[6])

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