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Do you number each entry of a works cited page

not in mla or apa

When was Notes of a Native Son created

Notes of a Native Son was created in 1955.

What symbol from the Raisin in the Sun most likely represents the expectations to conform to society

Eat your eggs

What central metaphor runs throughout James Baldwin's Notes of a Native son

Hatred is a disease.

What is one possible theme of A Raisin in the Sun

Embracing ones identity can be empowering

As part of the central metaphor in Notes of a Native Son what does James Baldwin consider to be an illness

Hatred

Read the following excerpt from Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Once this disease is contracted one can never be really carefree again for the fever without an instant's warning can recur at an


It compares hate to a disease that cannot be cured.

What was one major achievement of the civil rights movement during the 1940s or 1950s

The Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

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Which option is the best example of someone using a rhetorical device

A bush that blossoms whenever good times are coming

In what way does James Baldwin use a narrative structure

The essay tells a story about race relations in Harlem.

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What danger does the narrator discover after attacking the waitress

The danger his hatred poses to himself

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What argument does James Baldwin make that resolves one of his central ideas

That hatred or acceptance are choices one must

What rhetorical device is James Baldwin most clearly using in this passage

figurative language

What is a tension that runs throughout the entire story

The tension of segregation

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Why does the narrator find it hard to totally hate white America

A. Because carrying that much hate is self- destructive I check on apex

What adjective best describes the narrators father according to the narrator

Unsociable

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In "A Raisin in the Sun" which character best represents the theme of achieving success in a conventional way

Walter

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My father asked me abruptly, "You'd rather write than preach, wouldn't you" Why does this conversation surprise the narrator

B. Because it is the only real question his father ever asked him

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