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100
A type of sentence that contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought.
What is a Simple Sentence?
100
A person who has only one human parent and the other who is a divine being.
What is a Demi-god
100
A quatrain of a poem consists of how many lines.
What is 4 lines?
100
She is the only black female writer who has recieved a Nobel Prize for her writing.
Who is Toni Morrison?
100
This includes the preposition and the object of the preposition as well as any modifiers related to either.
What is a Prepositional Phrase?
200
These are used to provide concise documentation directly where a source is quoted or paraphrased within a person's paper.
What is a Parenthetical Citation?
200
According to both the Hebrew and Christian bible, this was mankind's first sin.
What is Disobedience?
200
THIS TYPE OF EARLY POEM WAS OFTEN WRITTEN TO MOURN THE DEATH OF A PERSON This type of early poem was often written to mourn the death of a person.
What is an Elegy?
200
This former U.S. slave wrote black literature's first novel and its first play.
Who is William Wells Brown?
200
This occurs when a writer has connected two main clauses with no punctuation, also called a run-on.
What is a Fused Sentence?
300
A comparison of one point of a topic with a point of the other topic; generally used in compare/contrast essays.
What is the Point-by-Point Method?
300
The avenger god of the Egyptians.
Who is Horus?
300
THIS TYPE OF AGELESS LITERARY WORK HAS MESSAGES GOOD FOR ALL TIMES This type of ageless literary work has messages good for all times.
What is a Classic?
300
Another name for the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s.
What is the Second Renaissance?
300
A verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed.
What is a Participle?
400
In writing, this is the sentence or group of sentences which states the main idea of an essay.
What is a Thesis Statement?
400
Greek teacher and philosopher whose student school was named the "Academy".
Who is Plato?
400
A literary work that exhibits the highest form of construction or writer craftmanship.
What is a Masterpiece?
400
This man coined this term which is used to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
400
Function as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.
What are Infinitve Phrases?
500
The essential background information at the beginning of a literary work.
What is Exposition?
500
An epic poem from Mesopotamia about the adventures of the historical King of Uruk
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
Term for the common characteristics of a type of literary work.
What are Conventions?
500
The late U.S. black playwright whose each of his 10 plays is devoted to one decade of the 20th Century.
Who is August Wilson?
500
A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.
What is an Appositive?