Brown Girl Dreaming Final Exam Review

The way a person’s memory or judgment is affected by their personal opinions or experiences

• subjectivity
• heredity

• ancestors

• infinity

The understanding that a poet might “break” rules of grammar that are necessary in other forms of writing

• end-stopped

• haiku

• anaphora

• poetic license

The traditions, achievements, beliefs, etc., that are part of the history of a family

• stanza

• heritage

• reliability

• memoir

The practice of requiring separate housing, bussing, education, and other services for people based on race

• segregation
• the Great Migration

• the Black Power Movement

• the Civil Rights Movement

The passing of qualities or traits from one generation in a family to another

• genealogy

• ancestry

• heredity

• haiku

The movement of more than 6 million Black Americans from farms in the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West from about 1916 to 1970

• the Civil Right Movement

• the Great Migration

• the Black Power Movement

• nonviolent resistance

The idea that a person can fight and defeat a cruel or unfair system without violence; examples include sit-ins, marches, and boycotts

• The Great Migration

• The Civil Rights Movement

• The Black Power Movement

• nonviolent resistance

The history of a particular family showing how the different members of the family are related to each other

• legacy

• ancestry

• heritage

• genealogy

The fight to end the unfair treatment of Black Americans, beginning in the 1950s, in which activists fought for Black Americans to gain equal

• The Civil Rights Movement

• The Black Power Movement

• nonviolent resistance

• segregation

The beat or flow of a poem. It is created by the syllables or beats in the lines.