master Study with vocab unit 2

Question 1

intersectionality

Answer 1

the cross section of a person’s identity(race, gender, intrests)

Question 2

rite of passage

Answer 2

a major event in someone’s life

Question 3

anthology

Answer 3

a collection of writings

Question 4

direct characterization

Answer 4

directly describing a character

Question 5

indirect characterization

Answer 5

making the reader make assumptions about the reader that aren’t directly stated

Question 6

duality

Answer 6

two parts of something

Question 7

simile

Answer 7

comparing two things with like or as

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

a figure of speech where a thing or action is compared while not being literally linked

Question 9

imagery

Answer 9

vividly describing something

Question 10

first person point of view

Answer 10

someone talking about there own life experiences

Question 11

third person

Answer 11

someone talking about someone else’s life experiences

Question 12

symbolism

Answer 12

the use of symbols to represent ideas or quantities

Question 13

genre

Answer 13

a category of artistic works

Question 14

flash fiction

Answer 14

a piece of fiction 1000 words or less

Question 15

theme

Answer 15

the subject

Question 16

personification

Answer 16

giving human quality to non-human things

Question 17

omniscient

Answer 17

all-knowing

Question 18

collective noun

Answer 18

a singular noun used to describe a group(group, crowd, crew)

Question 19

anaphora

Answer 19

the repeated use of the words at the beginning of a sentence(ex. collective nouns for humans in the wild)

Question 20

vignette

Answer 20

a brief account

Question 21

alliteration

Answer 21

the repeated consonants at the beginning of a word

Question 22

implicit bias

Answer 22

unconscious bias against a group of people

Question 23

blind spot bias

Answer 23

a belief that you don’t have biases.

Question 24

phillis wheatley

Answer 24

an African American poet who wrote to Washington

Question 25

to evoke

Answer 25

to bring out emotion

Question 26

free verse

Answer 26

no rhyme or reason

Question 27

James Baldwin

Answer 27

writer of letter to my nephew. traveled to france to write about race

Question 28

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 28

a revolution in the 1920s of African American Art

Question 29

Leslie Marmon Silko

Answer 29

A Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, Writer of It was a long time ago

Question 30

Joy Harjo

Answer 30

writer of perhaps the world ends here, is a member of the Muscogee Nation

Question 31

Langston Hughes

Answer 31

writer of mother to son, Jazz poetry, Harlem Renaissance.

Question 32

Amanda Gorman

Answer 32

writer of that inauguration poem

Question 33

Phil Kaye

Answer 33

he made that cool art

Question 34

Nikki Giovanni

Answer 34

writer of mothers, talked about by Mrs. Webster

Question 35

Guillaume Apollinaire

Answer 35

made those cool word pictures

Question 36

Adelaide Crapsey

Answer 36

she died young