Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
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Racism and the Color Line
Collective Progress and Individual Achievement
Music, Emotion, and American Culture
Secrecy, Purity, and Origins
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Characters
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The Narrator or “Ex-Colored Man”
The Narrator’s Mother
The Narrator’s Father
“Shiny”
The Millionaire
The Narrator’s Wife / The Singer
The Music Teacher
The Violinist
The Second Pullman Porter
The Washington Physician
John Brown
“Singing Johnson”
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Chopin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Toussaint L’Ouverture” (Lecture by Wendell Phillips)
Beethoven’s “Sonata Pathétique”
Atlanta University
Pullman Porters
Cuban rebels
Cake-Walk
Uncle Remus Stories
Fisk Jubilee Songs
Ragtime
Minstrel
“Slumming”
“Darky”
Havre
Faust
Grand Opera
Jim Crow
Howard University
W.E.B. Du Bois
Zion
Lynching
Eden Musée
Fauré’s 13th Nocturne
Hampton Institute
Carnegie Hall
Booker T. Washington
Symbols
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Clothing and Jewelry
Literary Devices
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Allusions
Dialect
Dramatic Irony
Ethos
Foil
Foreshadowing
Genre
Imagery
Irony
Logos
Metaphors
Mood
Motifs
Pathos
Personification
Satire
Setting
Similes
Situational Irony
Style
Tone
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
Summary & Analysis
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Themes
All Themes
Racism and the Color Line
Collective Progress and Individual Achievement
Music, Emotion, and American Culture
Secrecy, Purity, and Origins
Quotes
Characters
All Characters
The Narrator or “Ex-Colored Man”
The Narrator’s Mother
The Narrator’s Father
“Shiny”
The Millionaire
The Narrator’s Wife / The Singer
The Music Teacher
The Violinist
The Second Pullman Porter
The Washington Physician
John Brown
“Singing Johnson”
Terms
All Terms
Chopin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Toussaint L’Ouverture” (Lecture by Wendell Phillips)
Beethoven’s “Sonata Pathétique”
Atlanta University
Pullman Porters
Cuban rebels
Cake-Walk
Uncle Remus Stories
Fisk Jubilee Songs
Ragtime
Minstrel
“Slumming”
“Darky”
Havre
Faust
Grand Opera
Jim Crow
Howard University
W.E.B. Du Bois
Zion
Lynching
Eden Musée
Fauré’s 13th Nocturne
Hampton Institute
Carnegie Hall
Booker T. Washington
Symbols
All Symbols
Clothing and Jewelry
Lit Devices
All Literary Devices
Allusions
Dialect
Dramatic Irony
Ethos
Foil
Foreshadowing
Genre
Imagery
Irony
Logos
Metaphors
Mood
Motifs
Pathos
Personification
Satire
Setting
Similes
Situational Irony
Style
Tone
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