What Conflict marked the beginning of the Contemporary Period?
World War II
100
What is it called when the author makes direct statements about a character?
direct characterization
100
What are at least three values and/or beliefs of the American Political Culture?
Any 3:
Liberty, Equality, Democracy, Individualism, Rule of law, Nationalism, and Capitalism
100
Name at least 3 overlapping literary movements.
Any 3:
The Beat Generation, British Poetry Revival, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, Poetry Slam, and Postcyberpunk
100
Who wrote the poem Still I Rise?
Maya Angelou
200
What movement inspired many African Americans?
The Civil Rights Movement
200
What is it called when the writer gives information about a certain character through their thoughts, actions, and how characters react with other characters
indirect characterization
200
What is the belief that no one is better than the next?
Equality
200
What movement was known as a time of free sexuality, experimenting with drugs, rejection of material(materialism), rejection of standards, transformation in style, and belief in Eastern Religion?
The Beat Generation
200
Who wrote the book The Bluest Eye?
Toni Morrison
300
Before World War II The United States was in the midst of en economic crisis known as what?
The Great Depression
300
Who wrote a famous autobiography during WWII?
Anne Frank
300
What is the belief in the right to be free, while another’s rights aren’t abused?
liberty
300
By the 1960’s the people in the Beat became associated with other rebellious group of people?
Hippies
300
In the poem Still I Rise, Maya Angelou compares herself to what natural land form?