Literary Critique Test Review

Knowing Harlem culture, what is the best possible reason for why Mrs. Jones went out of her way to help Roger?

All of the following show Mrs. Jones' power in "Thank You, Ma'am," EXCEPT:

"Shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet."

How do the children in "All Summer in a Day" taunt Margot?

"The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass," an autobiography, is written in which point of view?

Frederick Douglass knows what about himself?

Reconstruction allows us to play with the power, perspective, and ____________ of a text.

The slave overseer's journal logbook was often difficult to read with mispellings, slang, & unusual _______.

The Harlem Renaissance occurred in the 19___.

Based on his vocabulary and writing style, what can we most easily infer about Douglass?

"The children lay...on the jungle mattress and heard it sigh and squeak underneath them..alive"

The Harlem Renaissance added all of the following to American culture, except:

In "All Summer in a Day," Margot has what kind of power?

"All Summer in a Day" primarily deals with themes of...

All of the following were conditions faced by slaves on their passage to America, EXCEPT:

"All Summer in a Day" provides what type of narration? (EX: They hated her for...her possible future.)

Name that literary device: "She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it"

Which literary device describes the way the characters spoke in "Thank You, Ma'am"?

In "All Summer in a Day," all of the following are troubling trends in Venus's society, EXCEPT:

Which of the following is NOT a part of a Literary Critique?

Literary Critique allows us to put many different ________________________.

Name the literary device! "The children pressed to each other, like so many roses."

Multicultural Literature is important because it provides ________________.

Langston Hughes made most of his fame from which of the following genres of writing?

In "Thank You, Ma'am," Mrs. Jones gains what from Roger?

"No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart."

The third and final stage of Literary Critique could include which of the following tactics:

"They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces..."

Roger could barely even say thank you because...?

Which trait most definitively describes Roger in "Thank You, Ma'am"?

In "The Narrative Life...," how does Douglass deal with the loss of his mother?

Name one similarity between Frederick Douglass' book and the slave overseer's journal.