African American Literature Exam with correct answers 2024
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Course
African American Literatur
Institution
African American Literatur
Call and Response correct answers Shared knowledge and experience is needed. Highlights degree to which community is built.
Call and Response Importance correct answers To break down hierarchies within the community. Allows us to value equally major and minor authors and works. Allows us to un...
Call and Response correct answers Shared knowledge and experience is needed.
Highlights degree to which community is built.
Call and Response Importance correct answers To break down hierarchies within the
community. Allows us to value equally major and minor authors and works. Allows us to
understand that the reader is as important as the author.
Masking correct answers Dissembling (to hide under false appearance/ to put on
appearance of/ to conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense.
Masking Importance correct answers Preserves what is underneath. Framework It
Inspires: African American Literature generally has or is aware of at least two
audiences.
Signifying correct answers Word play (tropes, the dozens)/ create meaning.
Signifying Importance correct answers Reminds us that AA Lit Culture contains
meanings that are not captured by the dictionary.
Framework it inspires: Repetition and Difference
The Vernacular correct answers Language which is nature, commonly used non
standard. Highlights innovation and local invention.
Locally invented.
Vernacular Importance correct answers Allows us to understand the reader is as
important as the author.
Signifying Monkey correct answers Monkey used his words to provoke the lion, proving
effective word play.
Paul Laurence Dunbar correct answers We Wear the Mask- "Why should the world be
overwise, in counting all our tears and sighs?"
Talking Book correct answers The master was moving his lips as he read. Making the
text speak. "Two forms of literacy punishable by law: the mastery of writing and the
mastery of the drum." The first structuring metaphor.
Booker T. Washington correct answers "Up From Slavery"
W.E.B. DuBois correct answers "From The Souls of Black Folk"
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