Vocabulary/Lit Terms
The food or other substances necessary for growth, health and good condition
Nourishment
"I would prefer not to" is the famous line of this short story character.
Bartleby
AF stand for these two words.
Artificial Friend
The character who passes as white 100% of the time.
Clare Kendry
The school Helga Crane worked at.
Naxos
contrast or contradiction between what is said/expected and what actually happens,
Irony
This is the parent that caused the baby to be mixed race in "Desiree's Baby".
Armand Aubigny
Children who are genetically modified to be more intelligent than their peers.
Lifted
Brian Redfield hates his career as a doctor and wants to move to this country instead.
Brazil
The city at the center of this renaissance, and one of the places Helga Crane moves to.
Harlem, New York
Something that appears contradictory at first, but actually reveals a deeper truth or meaning
Paradox
Bertha serves as a foil character to this woman in Hurston's "Sweat".
Delia
Klara believes the sun can healed Josie because of this emotion.
Love
The fictional 1912 novel written about a man reflecting on his own life, after passing as white for all of it.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
This formatting technique is for a narrative that is broken into distinct, self-contained segments that each offer a complete story.
Episodic Structure
Wishing to do what is right especially to do ones work or duty well and thoroughly
Conscientious
Secret si is symbolized by this article of clothing in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story.
A black veil
The room where Klara spends her time after Josie is healed.
The Utility Room.
This is the ambiguous part of Clare Kendry's death.
How she went out the window.
The Tragic Mulatto
The definition of sentient?
The ability to perceive or feel something.
Social Class, Marriage, and the Patriarchy were all introduced using this story by Djuna Barnes.
"A Night Among the Horses".
After Josie is healed, Mr. Capaldi visits the house to ask Klara to donate this part of her.
Her black box.
The sense of "two-ness" comes from this W.E.B. Dubois term to describe the internal conflict of African Americans who view themselves through their own eyes and simultaneously through the prejudiced eyes of a racist, white-dominated society.
Double Consciousness
The church revival causes Helga to do this.
Marry Rev. Mr. Pleasant Green