Jim Crow - answerLaws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Sambo - answerThe laughing happy black man
Zip Coon - answerPropaganda that blacks were not as smart as whites and could not comprehend the freedoms that abolitionism offered them
Mammy - answerOverweight asexual b...
ENG 260 Exam 1
Jim Crow - answerLaws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Sambo - answerThe laughing happy black man
Zip Coon - answerPropaganda that blacks were not as smart as whites and could
not comprehend the freedoms that abolitionism offered them
Mammy - answerOverweight asexual black woman devoted to raising her white
charges
Jezebel - answerAnimal like sexuality, promiscuous and seductive
The Brute - answerA savagely violent person stereotype
Blackface minstrelsy - answerA form of entertainment in which white performers
used exaggerated makeup, dress, and dialect to mock African Americans
Trickster figure - answerAnimals/characters who while obstensibly weak in some
way, succeed in getting the best of their larger, more powerful adversaries (Deer
hunting story)
Stereotype - answerA widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a
particular type of person or thing, what interests do they serve
Archetype - answerA typical character, an action or a situation that seems to
represent such universal patterns of human nature
Preface - answerA short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
Epigraph - answerA quotation at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the
theme
Frontispiece - answerAn illustration facing the title page of a book
Four Phases of a slave narrative - answer1. Loss of innocence, dehumanization
2. Resolve to free oneself
3. Escape
4. Success, join cause for abolition
Controlling metaphors - answerMetaphors that dominate or organize an entire poem
Double consciousness - answerA concept conceived by W.E.B. DuBois to describe
the sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others
Colorism - answerThe belief that one type of skin tone is superior or inferior to
another within a racial group
, Cultural pluralism - answerA condition in which many cultures coexist within a
society and maintain their cultural differences
Spectacle - answerAn unusual, impressive, or shocking public display
Witnessing - answerTo see an event (or crime) and be able to say (legally or
publicly) that it happened
The refrain - answerA set of lines repeated at intervals for emphasis
Rondeau - answerThree stanza poem with only two end rhymes, where opening line
becomes the refrain
"The Old Negro" (stereotype) - answerBecame more of a myth than a man
"The New Negro" (stereotype) - answerShaking off the psychology of imitation and
implied inferiority
Outer life objectives - answerNone other than the ideals of American institutions
and democracy
Inner life objectives - answerAn attempt to repair a damaged group psychology and
reshape a warped social perspective
Frame narrative - answerA story within a story, where the frame describes or draws
attention to the moment of narrating, speaking, writing, or remembering
Dedication - answerIn which the author states in honor
Pseudonym - answerFalse name
First person narrator - answerA narrator within the story who tells the story from the
"I" perspective
Third person narrator - answerRelates the events with the third person pronouns,
"he," "she," and "it."
Shakespearean sonnet - answerA sonnet consisting three quatrains and a
concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
Free verse - answerPoetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Jazz poetry - answerUse of repetition, syncopation, improvisation as guideposts for
free verse
Ballad - answerA narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift
action and narrated in a direct style
Stream of consciousness - answerA style of writing that portrays the inner (often
chaotic) workings of a character's mind
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