ELA Unit Test bgd study guide

The movement of more that 6 million black Americans from the rural south to city’s in the north.

The way in which a persons memory’s or judgment is shaped by their personal opinions or experiences.

A memoir is the line of people in a family’s past

A pattern of sound set by the syllables in lines of poetry

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line or stanza

End-stopped is a poetic line ending with punctation to show the completion of a phrase

In 1832 Woodsons great-great-grandfather is born free in Ohio.

Genealogy is an account of a persons or family’s descent from past generations

Woodson is born in Ohio

The degree to which a persons narration or memory is trustworthy or accurate

The passing of personal characteristics from one family’s generation of the other

A Japanese poetic form; three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

Woodson was born in Greenville

Enjambment is the running over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without end punctuation.

Ancestry is he line of people in a family’s past

Segregstion is the practice of requiring separate housing, bussing, education, and other services

Something acquired from the past; a persons cultural, religious, or racial background

A movement within the civil rights movment focused on black pride and self defense

Woodsons family moved to Greenville in the…

In the late- 1960’s Woodsons and her siblings move to Brooklyn New York with their mother.

A pause within a line of poetry, usually marked by puncuation

The idea that a person can resist and defeat an oppressive system without violence. Example, sit-ins, marches.

A stanza is a series of lines arranged together to create division in a poem

What year was Jaqueline Woodson born?

The understanding that a poet might change or “break” rules of grammar that govern other forms of writing

The civil rights movement is the struggle for social justice, in which activists fought for equal rights.