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A Lesson Before Dying
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Phillis Wheatley uses what method to draw attention to the final words in each line?
Rhyming couplets
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Explain the purpose of the blue-eyed, brown-eyed experiment.
For the children to understand what segregation is really like.
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Describe who Olaudah Equiano is?
Man caught and sold into slavery. Recounts his experiences in the middle passage on a slave ship.
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What is Grant's job?
Teacher
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Describe the different between the North and South depicted in Emmett Till. 
North provided freedom

South is different area- ex: black individuals would need to get off sidewalk if white woman is walking on it

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In "On Being Brought from Africa to America," what metaphor is being used for the train?
It is referring to Christianity as a train.
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What moods are present in Graduation? (Beginning, Middle, End?)
Beginning- hopeful (about to graduation) Middle- hopeless (with graduation speaker) End- Renewed faith in the community
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Chain gang songs are an example of:
Work songs
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Who is our narrator?
Grant Wiggins
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What gift does Claudia receive in The Bluest Eye?
Blue-eyed blond doll
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How is the individual described in "If We Must Die?"
As a hog
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What event caused Jane Elliot to create her blue-eyed, brown-eyed exercise?
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination
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What problems did Martin Luther King Jr. describe in his speech "I have a Dream"? Name at least one. 
-segregation

-police brutality

-poverty

-lack of opportunity


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What poem can most be related to this novel?
"If We Must Die" by Claude McKay
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"Wade in the Water" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" describe what event?
The Underground Railroad
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What are the literary devices in "Mother to Son?" (Name at least two)
Metaphor- crystal stairs Tactile Imagery- tacks, splinters, boards torn up Consonance- I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's 
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What is the main idea of "A New African-American Culture?" What poet is mentioned in this article? 
Creation of African-American culture in America; Phillis Wheatley
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What "crime" did Emmett Till commit?
Flirting with a white woman
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Does Jefferson die as a man or as a hog?
As a man (this is recorded in his journal)- he walked to the electric chair.
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"Africa" is what type of poem?
Concrete
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What literary devices are present in "We Wear the Mask?" (Name at least three) We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!
Personification: -"We wear the mask that grins and lies" -"It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" -"But let the world dream otherwise" Hyperbole: -"With torn and bleeding hearts we smile" Rhetorical questions: -"Why should the world be over-wise in counting all our tears and sighs?"
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What type of imagery is present in Olaudah Equiano?
-Descriptions of smells below deck, bodies pressed together
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Give an example of ethos, pathos, or logos for "I Have a Dream." (Need at least two different appeals used.)
Ethos: -Abraham Lincoln -Emancipation Proclamation -Acting as a parent Logos: -Check he has come to cash -Emancipation Proclamation was 100 years ago, but the Negro is still not free Pathos: -Emotion through American Dream -"Free at last! free at last!" -"I have a dream"
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Describe the setting of two locations and describe why these two different settings were important.
Answers will vary -Jail -School -Court room -Tante Lou's home
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Name one author and work. Then describe how one of the purposes of African American literature applies to this text? Use assertion, evidence, and commentary.
Call for activism

Tell the truth

Reveal injustice

Express emotion

Incite or provoke a response