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African American Literature
Final Examination
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Literature
Undergraduate 3
05/01/2007

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Richar Allen was the 1st to publish
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Spirituals
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Recorded the first Gospel Music to be commercially waxed
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Dinwiddi Colored Quartet Chicago
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Georgia Tom Also Known as; once was blues and composed what Gospel song.
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Thomas A. Dorsey; "Take my Hand Precious Lord"
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C.A. Tindley wrote
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Stand By me
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Mahalia Jackson
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"the worlds greatest gospel singer"
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"You may go but this will bring you back"
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Father of the Blues is; published what blues
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W.C. Handy; St. Louis Blues
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"The Signifying Monkey"
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lion, and elephant
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"John Henry" Occupation ect..
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Steal driving man, worked on railroads
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"Frankie and Johnny" Johnny cheated with
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cheated with Nelly Bly
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Jimmy Reed
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Singer of the Blues
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Bessie Smith
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Blues Singer; Story of her false death
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Huddie Ledbetter A.K.A
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LedBelly
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McKinley Morgnafield A.K.A
recorded what blues song
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Muddy Waters; Hoochie Coochie Man
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Billie Holiday A.K.A
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lady day
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"See See Rider"first recorded by
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Ma Rainey
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Written by Thomas"Fats" Waller, song Recorded by Louis Armstrong
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"What did I do to be so Black and Blue"
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Gil Scott-Heron
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"The Revolution will not be Televised"
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"When the Revolution Comes" was recorded by
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The last poets
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First African American to Publish a book; info about "To Maecenas", and "On being Brought from Africa"
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Phyllis Wheatley; style heroic cuplet
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Earliest known African American Writer
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Lucy Terry
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"Bars Fight" meaning of bars
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Meadows
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African American Woman Slave Narrative
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Harriet Jacobs Incidence in the Life of a Slave Girl(Linda Brnet, Dr. Flint)
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abstract concepts, as a way to obfuscate any literal interpretation
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Symbolism
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figure of speech that gives non-humans and objects human traits and qualities.
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Personification
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refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external content.
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allusion
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comparison of two unlike things
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Simile
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indirect comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects
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Metaphor
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Father of Naturalism
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Emile Zola
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Outlawed Slavery
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13th amendment
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14th amendment
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secure rights for former slaves
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15th amendmentmay
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not prevent a citizen from voting because of his race
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was first AA fiction writer to use White controlled publishers, "Goophered Grapevine" took place where
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Charles Chesnut, south carolina; annie, uncle julius McAdoo, Mars Dugal McAdoo, Henry scupperman
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the earliest known work of fiction by an African American author the "Mulatto"
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Victor Sejour
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Frederick Douglass Mother
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Harriet Bayley
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Negro national athem is ___ written by
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lift every voice and sing James Weldon Johnson
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"America" written by
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James Whitfield
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The Souls of Black Folk double consciousness the talented 10th
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W.E.B. Dubois
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A book of African American Poetry Begin Harlem Reinassance
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James Weldon Johnson
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Nina Yolana DuBois
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married Countee Cullen for a couple of months
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Longest run of any aa play until Raisin in the sun
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Mulatto (underlined)
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