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Vocabulary
Persuasive/
Literary Techniques
Biographical Information
The Revolutionary
period and its literature
Contemporary Revolutionaries
100
You value this quality in a friend.
What is "probity"?
100
A question that doesn't need to be answered because the answer is obvious.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
Credited with the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The classification of most of the literature written during this period.
What is non-fiction?
100
Was a member of the Black Muslims.
Who was Malcom X?
200
"Be true to yourself" is an example of this.
What is a "precept"?
200
The social conditions of the time which influences a piece of writing.
What is historical context?
200
Wrote many letters to her husband while he was involved in America's fight for independance.
Who is Abigail Adams?
200
Writing became more of this because of the invention of the printing press.
What is public?
200
MLK believed this method was the most effective in fighting oppression.
What is non-violent resistance?
300
You may feel this when you graduate and move away from home for teh first time.
What is "Emancipated"?
300
Can be considered positive, negative or neutral.
What is connontation?
300
Was named after a slave ship.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
300
Another name for the Revolutionary Period.
What is the Age of Reason/The Enlightenment?
300
Malcom X alludes to this event to support his belief that blacks should fight back against the oppression of the government.
What is The American Revolution?
400
You would describe your opponent this way if he was bigger, stronger and faster than you.
What is "formidable"?
400
Technique Jefferson used to list the complaints against the King and England.
What is Paralellism?
400
His home was called Monticello.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Writers and thinkers valued this over faith.
What is Reason?
400
The name of MLK's most famous speech.
What is "I Have a Dream"?
500
You would describe a boss this way if he always yelled, made you work every weekend and gave you too much work to do.
What is "tyrannical"?
500
"He is at this time transporting large armies . . .to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny. . ." is an example of this.
What is loaded language?
500
The red-haired wonder
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
500
The most famous writer of the period outside the realm of politics.
Who was Ben Franklin?
500
Where Malcom X was assassinated.
What is Harlem?