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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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“On being brought from Africa to America”

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Phyllis Wheatley

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Me and My Captain - Got One Mind for the White Folks to See

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Roland L. Freeman

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3
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Harriot Jacobs

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4
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“Douglass”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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5
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“Frederick Douglass”

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Robert Hayden

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“The Wife of His Youth”

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Charles W. Chestnutt

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Dinah Kneading Dough

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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8
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A Negro Love Song

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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9
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We Wear the Mask

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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10
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“I Hear America Singing”

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Walt Whitman

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11
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Mother to Son

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Langston Hughes

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12
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The Weary Blues

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Langston Hughes

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13
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I, Too

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Langston Hughes

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14
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Song For a Dark Girl

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Langston Hughes

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15
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Hellhound on my trail

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robert johnson

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16
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Langston Hughes

17
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If We Must Die

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Claude McKay

18
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Yet Do I Marvel

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Countee Cullen

19
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Incident

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Countee Cullen

20
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Theme

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abstract, underlying meaning of a work

21
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Possible theme of I Know Moon Rise

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the desire for rest and to reunite with a loved one taken from life will be achieved through death

22
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Standard Slave Narrative Structure

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  1. brief time of innocence (truly a child)
  2. boy made into slave (experice dehumanization)
  3. rejection of slave identity (slave becomes man)
  4. escape North (re-naming of self)
  5. commitment to abolitionist efforts
23
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motif

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any reoccurring element in a work of literature

African American Lit (3 decks)

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