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Undergraduate 4
03/07/2007

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Enlightenment
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(Neoclassical Age of Reason) Greece and Rome were the classical. During the 18 Century across Europe. People wrote as if humans were superior to animals.
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Metaphor
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Figurative language an indirect comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects that typically uses "is a" to join the first subjects.In the simplest case, a metaphor takes the form: "The [first subject] is a [second subject]."
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Simile
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compares two subjects using "like" or "as". An example of a simile: "He was as sly as a fox."
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole
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Personification
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To give something human characteristics
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Allusion
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A literary reference in literature to something that has been written before.
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Apostrophe
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to address an absent or imaginary person.
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Heroic Couplet
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A kind of poem written in couplets (two lines) each line has 5 beats and each beat would have ten syllables.
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Two laws against slaves before 1750
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Banned Reading & Drums
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Stono Rebellion of 1739
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Largest Know organized act aganist slavery. The rebellion started in South Carolina. The Stono Rebellion resulted in a 10 year moratorium on slave imports through Charleston and enacted a harsher slave code, which banned earning money and education for slaves.
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Nat Turner Rebellion
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A Took place in VA in august 1831 over 50 people killed. Most successfully slave Rebellion.
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David Hume
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Enlightenment
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Immanuel Kant
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Most influential thinkers of the enlightenment. Thought blacks were inferior to whites.
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Crispus Attucks
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First of 5 people killed in the boston massacre. First killed during the revolutionary War.
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Robert Frost
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Read at kennedy's inauguration "the gift outright"
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Phillis Wheatley
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First black to publish poetry in english. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems.
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Maya Angelou
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Read at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration.
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Native Son
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Richard Wright wrote in 1940 which was the first Book of the Month Club recommendation by an African American author.
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Signifying, ritual insult, he's playing the dozens
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talking down on each other.Signifying denotes a form of verbal play, centering primarily on insult.
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"Big Talk"
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Folktale by Zora Neale Hurtston. One slave tricks another slave into cursing master, then the slave tricks him back by getting him to look up the misses skirt.
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"You Talk too Much, Anyhow"
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Slave speaks to a turtle and it speaks back. Turtle tells the slave that negroes talk too much.
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"Why the sister in black works hardest"
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After God made the world he let down a great big bundle in the middle of the road. the missus tole the massa to go get the box and see what's in it. Massa told the slave to get it. He tells his wive who opens the box.
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Uncle Remus
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Joel Chandler Harris wrote the stories. Julius lester rewrites them.
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Harriet beecher Stowe
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Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Dialect
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Writing the way it was spoken.
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Dialogue
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the conversation between characters in a novel, drama, etc.
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"John henry"
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Ballad in which he was a Steel driving man who died beating a steam drill.He broke a rib.
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"Frankie and Johnny"
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Ballad about Frankie and Johnny who were lovers The bartender told Frankie johnnie was cheating with nelly bly and Frankie shot him and went to jail.
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"The Signifying Monkey"
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Monkey and lion got to talking and the monkey trick the lion into thinking the elephant was talking bad about him. The elephant beat the lion up. Then the monkey tricked the lion again by telling him he had a secret. That's why monkeys stay in trees.
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"Stackolee"
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Stackolee shot billy told his mom. A train hit him and he went to hell. his girlfriend susie bell was there, and he ended up running hell.
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"You May Go but this will Bring You Back"
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Sung By Zora Neale Hurston. About Either her sex or her dancing.
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Richard Allen
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Richard Allen a black church leader gathered together the earliest book of religious songs.
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Lining Out (calling out) call-response
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The calling out of the song lyrics in anticipation of the group’s singing of the lyrics.
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"Didn't my lord deliver Daniel"
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The Lord delivered Daniel He will deliver slaves to.
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"soon I will be Done"
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Soon slaves will be done and go to live with God
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Gospels
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Percussive, Polyrhythmically syncopated, bluesy music.1st decades of 20th century.
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Chicago
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Where the Gospel first claimed a citywide and then a national audience.
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Dinwiddie Colored Quartet
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in 1902 the first gospel music to be commercially waxed.
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Thomas Dorsey (Georgia Tom)
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Combined C.A. Tindleys example and combine it with what he knew from the secular world to create the bedrock compostions in this new musical form. Gospel
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C.A. Tindley
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A Black Religious songwriter who combined the themes and melodies ofthe white religious revivals and with the blues tonalities and other features of black music. Gospel wrote "stand by me","this little light of mine" "down by the riverside"
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W.C. Handy
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Father of blues wrote yellow dog blues.
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12-bar form
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three lines of four beats each, the first line repeated and followed by 3rd rhyme line.
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Blues
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Included groans, moans, barnyard sounds, trains, whistles, etc.
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Jimmy Reed
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recorded Good Morning Blues.
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What's a yellow dog
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The Yazoo delta railroad
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Whats an easy rider?
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A Sexual promiscuous mate
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"St Louis Blues"
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A womans man left her for a st. louis woman. She goes to get him back.
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Cannon ball
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Train
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Muddy waters
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McKinley Morganfield wrote hoochie coochie
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Jazz
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Early 20thCentury syncopated rhythm (New Orleans, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, New York) Syncpation , city music.
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"black and blue"
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Written by Thomas "Fats" Waller Made famous by Louis Armstrong. Played a role in invisible man.
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"It dont mean a thing"
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Duke Ellington (1899-1974) Song gave a motto to the swing era.
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Charlie Parker
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"The Bird" Alto Saxophonist and key contributer to the jazz post world war II movement called bebop.
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Lady Day
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Billie Holiday
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Bessie Smith
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had her leg amputated great jazz musician
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Ella Fitzgerald
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was the Scat Queen
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Scat
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in which nonsensical syllables or words are sung, often as part of a call-and-response interaction with other musicians
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Thelonious Monk
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Large hands
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"the revolution will not be televised"
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by Gil Scott-Heron
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Lucy Terry
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"bars Fight" Is the earliest known work of literature by an african american. heroic couplet.
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Phillis Wheatley
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The first african american to publish a book and the first to achieve an international reputation as a writer. wrote "to maecanas and "On being Brought" and "On imagination"
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"The Lovers Farewell"
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George moses horton
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Sojourner Truth (isabella)
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"Ain't I a Woman"
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Harriet Jacobs
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first woman in the united states to author a slave narrative."Linda Brent" "incidents of a slave girl"
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William wells brown
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The first african american to write the first novel Clotel and the first drama the escape.
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Victor Sejour
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"The Mulatto" First known Ficition
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James M. Whitfield
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America
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Frances E. W. Harper
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"A Double Standard" and " the Slave Mother"
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Booker T. Washington
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Up From Slavery
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Charles Chestnutt
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"the Goophered Grapevine" Wife of His Youth"
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