Poetry
What do birds usually symbolize?
freedom
Which text did Elizabeth Cady Stanton model her "Declaration of Sentiments" from?
Declaration of Independence
Who was Frederick Douglass?
A former enslaved person who learned how to read and write and escaped his way to freedom.
What was happening historically when Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address?
the Civil War
The students sat across from each other.
across from each other
What do the birds that Maya Angelou uses in her poem symbolize?
1) free bird= whites
2) caged bird= blacks
What are 3 inalienable rights and who are they entitled to, according to Stanton?
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
men and women
What is another text we've read by Douglass?
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a Former Slave
What is the purpose of Lincoln's second inaugural address?
To unify the nation
What is the prepositional phrase?
The grass beneath the swings is turning brown.
beneath the
What is one metaphor Langston Hughes uses in his poem "dreams" to describe a life without dreams?
1) A bird that cannot fly
2) Frozen and empty land where no crops grow
What types of literary devices does Kate Chopin use in her story, "Story of an Hour"?-
irony, imagery, personification, metaphor, simile
What rhetorical device does Douglass use in the first paragraph of his speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
rhetorical questions
What rhetorical strategies/devices did Lincoln use in his Second Inaugural address?
Parallelism, ethos, allusion, logos
What is the prepositional phrase?
During the lockdown, we sat quietly with our heads down.
during the lockdown
In, "I, Too" Hughes says, "
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes."
What does sitting at the table symbolize?
equal rights/treatment
What does Stanton mean in this grievance/complaint:
"He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration."
Men do almost all of the best paying jobs and what is left/what women are allowed to do, don't pay well.
What are other rhetorical devices Douglass uses in his speech?
charged words, allusions, imagery, metaphors
What is ironic about this sentence from Lincoln's speech:
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other.
What is the prepositional phrase?
They rang their friend's doorbell and then hid among the bushes.
among the bushes
Hughes says, "I too, sing America." Which poem/poet is he referring to?
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
How is "Story of an Hour"? ironic?
doctors think she has died of joy, but readers know that she died of grief/shock
the characters believe that she will be sad her husband has died, but she feels free/happy
What is the message Douglass imparts through his speech?
that America contradicts its values of freedom and equality through the implementation of slavery
What are prepositional phrases?
words/phrases that show a relation between a noun and another word in the sentence.
They show location, time, space