Writing/Grammar
Sentence: When the boy got home from school.
What is a fragment?
A cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship.
What is the Harlem Renassiance?
A writer who "made African American experience the subject of his writings which ranged from poetry and plays to novels and newspapers" (Adam Augustyn).
Who is Langston Hughes?
A poem depicting the sacrifices parents make for their children. Written from an adult point of view.
What is "Those Winter Sundays"?
Young man from Minnesota who moves from the Midwest to New York City to learn the bond business.
Who is Nick Carraway?
Author, Work, Claim, Evidence
What is a well-written thesis?
Period when people beieved society and its institutions corrupt the purity of the human soul.
What is Transcendentalism?
Best known for writing novels about the Jazz Age.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Poem showing contrast with the attitudes of a washerwoman and her unemployed, insecure husband.
What is "Sweat"?
Narrative perspective of the Great Gatsby.
What is 1st person; Nick Carraway
Topic sentence, evidence, concluding statement, transition.
What are the parts of the body paragraph?
Values intuition over reason.
What is Romanticism?
Explored the darkness of the human mind; Gothic Romantic
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A piece that advocates for individuals to trust in their own instincts and ideas, rather than blindly following the opinions of society and its institutions.
Symbol for unattainable dream, future.
What is the green light?
A true statement that relates your topic back to reality.
What is a universal statement?
Escape into your imagination; darkness of the human mind.
What is Gothic Romantic?
She was an abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the women’s rights movement.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A piece that laid out what the rights of American women should be and compared the women’s rights struggle to the Founding Fathers’ fight for independence from the British.
What is the "Declaration of Sentiments"?
Society and class, love, visions of america, mortality, wealth, etc.
What is themes of "The Great Gatsby"?
Sentence: The women who went to the meeting were bored.
What is subject/verb agreement?
Concurrent search for new forms of expression.
What is Modernism?
An American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
A speaking that was meant to draw attention to the rights of women. More specifically the rights of colored women.
What is the "Speech to the American Equal Rights Association"?
Nick visiting the Buchanans and Gatsby and Daisys meeting.