History I
official policy of racial segregation
Apartheid
This is the group Nelson Mandela became a leader of early on in his fight against apartheid.
African National Congress
"ABACB" is example of this.
Rhyme scheme
Using evidence from the text to make as assumption is called this.
Inference
the quality of being religious or reverent.
piety
This man was the first black president of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela
This is the name of the Afrikaner who helped to end Apartheid
FW DeKlerk
"Life is a garbage can full of rejection" is an example of this literary device.
Metaphor
Writing that uses the form of lines and stanzas is called this.
Poetry
talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense.
blither
The Rwanda Genocide lasted this many days.
100 days
True or False : Many international leaders demanded the release of Nelson Mandela from prison.
True
This is the rhyme scheme for the following poem:
I had a catWho was so fat
He could not even
sit on his mat.
AABA
What a poem is called that is written in the form of an image or shape.
Concrete poetry.
of poor quality; very bad.
wretched
This is the name of the laws that required South African Citizens to identify one of 3 specific races (White, Black, and Colored)
Population Registration Act
Th extermination of a specific group of people is this
genocide
The form of writing that uses sentences and paragraphs is called this.
Prose
Giving human traits to an object is called this literary device.
Personification
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
ballad
This group of people were the victims of the Rwandan Genocide.
Tutsis
This is considered the first genocide of the 20th century.
Armenian Genocide
"The tiger was terrible at terrorizing the turtle" is an example of this literary device.
Alliteration
a poem that has 14 lines with 10 syllables in each line is called this.
Sonnet
a tract of open uncultivated land
moor