The African-American Experience: Related Terms

6. White supremacist organization.
7. A contradictory statement.
8. Form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
12. Attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts.
13. Creative linguistic expression.
16. Black religious group that preached separatism during Civil Rights era.
18. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of a word.
21. Words used in a creative way.
22. Repetition of letters such as t, s, or p.
23. Rewording for emphasis.
28. Civil Rights slogan that emphasized self-esteem in terms of style and fashion.
30. A kind of grammatical repetition used for emphasis.

1. 6 million southern blacks moved north during this event.
2. Militant black organization.
3. The process through which "separate but equal" laws were abolished.
4. Civil Rights slogan that motivated blacks to fight against white oppression.
5. Parallelism and restatement are two kinds of this rhetorical maneuver.
9. Black leader who advocated for civil rights by attempting to appease white superiority.
10. Cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in New York spanning the 1920s.
11. State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
14. A type of comparison that helps explain.
15. An agreement that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule.
17. A comparison between two unlike things.
19. Uses the words like or as.
20. An intellectual black elite.
24. Repetition of letters such as a, e, or i.
25. Words that sound like what they are describing employ this sound device.
26. Black leader who attempted to foster a black intellectual elite.
27. Preached nonviolent resistance during Civil Rights.
29. Civil Rights leader who wanted blacks to take a more aggressive stance toward white oppression.