Cards in this guide (21)
Was James Baldwin Married
Yes James Baldwin was married.
What force in society was the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s most trying to overcome
What central metaphor runs throughout James Baldwin's Notes of a Native son
What is the best example of a rhetorical device
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
Which characteristics of James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son qualify it as a work of literary nonfiction
It tells a personal story with a consistent narrator
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 was one major source of conflict during the civil rights movement of the 1940s to 1950s
The desegregation of Little Rock Central High School.
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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
The hatred is as dangerous to the hater as it is to the hated.
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What rhetorical device is James Baldwin most clearly using in this passage
What is a tension that runs throughout the entire story
The tension of segregation
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Which option is the best example of literary nonfiction
An essay that relates an activist's experiences fighting for civil rights.
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What adjective best describes the narrators father according to the narrator
What way does this scene show one of the central ideas of James Baldwin's essay
The scene shows how hatred is a choice,not a fact of life
Which rhetorical device is this sentence most clearly usingA hero embraces the truth, while a coward flees it, and a villain hides it.
In "A Raisin in the Sun" which character best represents the theme of achieving success in a conventional way
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
