Declaration of Sentiments
Written as an extended allusion, the Declaration of Sentiments directly references this earlier manifesto about human rights.
The Declaration of Independence
In Brown v. Board of Education, the cases considered for ruling all had this policy in common.
Public school segregation
Euphrates, Congo, Nile, Mississippi
A group of lines that form a section of a poem.
Stanza
Connects words, phrases, or clauses of equal rank.
Coordinating conjunction
A subordinate clause
The term for a group of people who, for example, sue a company for making a dangerous product.
Plaintiffs
In "Refugee in America," the speaker claims that "Freedom" is "sweet and wonderful to say" but this synonym for freedom causes him almost to cry.
Liberty
Fourteen
Author of the Opinion of the Court for Brown v. Board of Education.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Primary author of the Declaration of Sentiments, she later co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The doctrine of "separate but equal" was originally applied in this 1896 decision concerning segregated train cars.
Plessy v. Ferguson
What does the speaker in "I, Too" suggest is the ultimate symbol of equality between people?
Eating at the same table
In "A Black Man Talks of Reaping," the poet contrasts how much was reaped with this other activity.
How much was sown.
An unexplained reference in a literary work to a well-known person, place, event, text, or thing.
Allusion
The Declaration of Sentiments groups its grievances mostly into three categories: grievances about marriage, grievances about property ownership, and grievances about this other term for suffrage.
Voting rights.
Advances in this scientific field influenced the court's decision, as can be seen in the following quote: "To separate children from othes of similar age and qualifications solely because of their reace generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone."
Psychology
The emotional effect of a work.
Mood
Repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables that follow different vowel sounds.
Consonance
This movement, beginning in the early 1900s, saw hundreds of thousands of African Americans leave the rural South for the industrial North.
The Great Migration
Regarding marriage, the Declaration states: "He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly" what?
Dead
In Brown v. Board of Education, the author notes two factors about public education in 1868 when the 14th Amendment was adopted. First, public school in the South were not yet in use at that time. What is the second point made?
Northern public schools had short terms and did not require attendance.
The speaker's attitude about their material.
Tone
A stanza of four lines. Elizabethan sonnets contain three of them followed by a concluding couplet.
Quatrain
The way in which words and phrases are arranged to form sentences. In poetry, this arrangement is often unconvential.
Syntax