Literary Activism is best defined as...

a form of protest and critique aimed at advocating for a cause

Poetic literary activism has the power to:

Influence and inspire a call to action

Many of the writer's perspective on literary activism ...

encourages us to listen and learn from each other without judgment

Cleo Wade told a story about action vs inaction. An example of tragedy she gave was...

After a hurricane when people just got into their boats to help

Of the literary activism prompts, one wanted to abandon the word "ally" because...

We should consider others' problems and causes as our own

What was a significant structure choice of Cleo Wade's TedTalk?

It began and ended with stories about a baby and a 100 yr old for contrast

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Literary Activism is best defined as...
a form of critique in which one analyzes the negatives of being active
a form of protest and critique aimed at advocating for a cause
a form of analysis with the purpose of being physical
a form of writing in which one writes about being active
2
Poetic literary activism has the power to:
Influence and inspire a call to action
Confuse and stagger people who disagree
Make people hate poetry
Trick people into agreeing to a cause
3
Cleo Wade repeated this word to emphasize her point about compassion:
Share
Sacrifice
Take
Give
4
Many of the writer's perspective on literary activism ...
encourages us to listen and learn from each other without judgment
antagonizes us into taking action
encourages us to convince everyone of our arguments
encourages us to think of strong arguments, and stick to them regardless
5
Cleo Wade told a story about action vs inaction. An example of tragedy she gave was...
After a terrible fire when people helped the firefighters
After a hurricane when people just got into their boats to help
After a storm when a town united in the power outage
After an earthquake when people starting taping the earth back together
6
Fill in the blank: How is your work helping to ___ economic, ethnic, cultural oppression?
Disrupt
Disturb
Mess up
Interrupt
7
The tone of Cleo Wade's TedTalk could best be described as...
Intimidating and informational
Silly and goofy
Compassionate and empathetic
Stern and tough
8
The english term for specific "word choice" is:
Diction
Lingos
Language
Wordsies
9
Of the literary activism prompts, one wanted to abandon the word "ally" because...
It is a stupid, silly word
We should consider others' problems and causes as our own
"Ally" is not a friendly word
Because we should not be allies to each other
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What was a significant structure choice of Cleo Wade's TedTalk?
It had a rhyme scheme to it
It started with the story of a 100 yr old and worked backwards
It told the story of a newborn growing up into an old man who is now 100
It began and ended with stories about a baby and a 100 yr old for contrast

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