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lit 234 Flashcards

1
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origin of the name of Africa

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aprica (Latin meaning sunny)
aphrike (Latin meaning without cold)

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2
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africa contains the hottest desert named

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The Sahara Desert

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3
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africa contains the longest river called

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The Nile River

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4
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most common language spoken in Africa

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Swahili

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5
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the tallest animal found in Africa

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giraffe

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the system of racial segregation experienced by Africa

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apartheid

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7
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Nobel Prize for Peace winner in 1993 and the first black president of South Africa, serving from 1994 to 1999

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Nelson Mandela

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born in Ghana and served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations

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Kofi Annan

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9
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authored the poems “My Black is Beautiful (Woman)” and “My Black is Beautiful (Man)”

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Naomi Johnson

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10
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authored “A Private Experience”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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11
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wrote the short story “Inscape”

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Yaa Gyasi

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12
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author of “War for God”

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Zaynab Quadri

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13
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author of “The Sack”

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Namwali Serpell

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14
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wrote the poem from Zimbabwe “Saturday”

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Charles Mungoshi

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15
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refers to written and oral works created by
literary writers in South America, and the Caribbean

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Latin American Literature

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16
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author of “In the Name of Salome”

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Julia Alvarez from Dominican Republic

17
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wrote the novel “Signs Preceding the End of the World”

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Yuri Herrera from Mexico

18
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wrote the short story “How to Date a Brown Girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)

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Pulitzer Prize winning Junot Diaz

19
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authored the short story “Ghosts”

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Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)

20
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guidelines in developing a literary comparative essay

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  1. identify the basis of comparison
  2. make a list of similarities and differences
  3. come up with thesis statement and structure for the essay
21
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usually a single sentence near the beginning of your paper that presents your argument to the readers

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thesis statement

22
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two patterns of a comparative essay

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point-by-point (alternating) pattern
subject-by-subject (block) pattern

23
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two types of literary critical approach

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Formalist Criticism
Cultural Criticism

24
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This literary critical approach evaluates a piece just through lookin gat its form, such as style, structure, tone, plot, imagery, among others which are all found within the text.

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formalist criticism

25
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This criticism studies how different religions, ethnicities, class identifications, cultural backgrounds, political beliefs and socio-cultural
views affect the ways in which texts are created and interpreted.

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Cultural Criticism

26
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refers to any narrative nonfiction writing about someone’s experience that speaks on some pivotal segments of the author’s life

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memoir

27
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is a lexical variant of a flash fiction which is involved in creating very short fictional stories within the length of
300 words.

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micro-fiction

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structure of a memoir

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  1. framed
  2. straightforward
  3. thematic
29
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elements of a memoir

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  1. truth
  2. theme
  3. voice
  4. point of view
  5. perception
30
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elements of a micro-fiction

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  1. plot
  2. characters
  3. conflict
  4. theme
  5. point of view
31
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also known as the west Indies, it is the second largest and the most diverse country in the Caribbean

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Dominican Republic

32
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a character in the name of salome
she is an educator and a literary critic advocating intellectual study for women
daughter of Francisco Henriquez Carvajal and Salome Urena

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Camila Henriquez Urena

33
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a character in the name of salome was a Dominican poet and an early proponent of women’s higher education in the Dominican Republlic

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Salome Urena

34
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a character in the name of salome was a doctor, lawyer, writer, educator and politician from the Dominican Republic, who served as president just prior to the US occupation of the country.

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Franciscio Hilario Henriquez Carvajal

35
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(born March 1, 1984)
an American author,
photographer, and blogger. author of Humans of NewYork, a photoblog and book

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Brandon Stanton

36
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(born April 25, 1952 in
Gainesville, Florida)
an American novelist in the
Southern literary tradition
His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award

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Padgett Powell

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