ENG 125 Exam #3

By the time you graduate, how many more words might you know?

10,000

At what age does most early vocabulary growth occur?

age 5

What are college years described as in terms of word growth?

vocabulary surge

What kind of listening helps build vocabulary in class?

close listening

What kind of vocabulary appears across all disciplines?

academic vocabulary

What are words like justice, identity, and bias examples of?

abstract terms

What type of terms are specific to a field or profession?

disciplinary terminology

What word is used across English, biology, and sociology classes?

analysis

What is Nikki Giovanni’s most famous poem?

Nikki-Rosa

What literary and cultural movement were Giovanni associated with?

Black Arts Movement

What are three of the most famous poems by black women that circulate widely through performance, not necessarily in print? And who wrote the poems?

• Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

• Phenomenal Women by Maya Angelou

• Ego-Tripping by Nikki Giovanni

What has Nikki Giovanni done perhaps more than any living poet? Where did she receive coverage early on that made her more widely known?

• Given Public Readings

• New York Times Newspaper

What factor has made Giovanni so iconic for more than five decades now? What’s unique about the covers of volumes of poetry in comparison to most other volumes?

• she’s photogenic

• her images are on her books

What famous poem does “Ego-Tripping” connect to in the opening?

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes

What popular black male verbal tradition does “Ego-Tripping” signify on and revise?

Toast

What place, which appears less frequently in contemporary black women’s poetry, is the site of several references that Giovanni makes in the poem?

Africa

What recurring self-definition phrase does Giovanni use in the poem?

“I am”

The speaker’s ability to move across what two things makes her movement seem sci-fi and fantastic?

• time

• place