Frederick Douglass — Chapter 1
Douglass says he was born in this Maryland location.
What is Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough?
This was the name of Colonel Lloyd’s home plantation, where enslaved people from the surrounding farms went for supplies.
What is the Great House Farm?
Information that is directly stated in a text is called this.
What is explicit information?
In the RACE strategy, the C stands for this.
What is Cite evidence?
“Her smile was as bright as the sun.” This comparison using like or as is an example of this.
What is a simile?
This woman was Frederick Douglass’s mother.
Who is Harriet Bailey?
Enslaved people traveled to the Great House Farm regularly to receive these necessities.
What are their food allowance and clothing?
To make this, a reader combines clues from the text with information they already know.
What is an inference?
This is a word’s literal or dictionary meaning.
What is denotation?
These are like the “paragraphs” of a poem.
What are stanzas?
Douglass knew this much about his father, although he did not know his father’s exact identity.
What is that his father was a white man?
This overseer was described by Douglass as cruel, violent, and constantly using harsh language.
Who is Mr. Severe?
Who, what, when, where, why, and how can help a reader determine this part of a text.
What is the central idea/main idea?
The feelings or ideas associated with a word beyond its literal definition are called this.
What is connotation?
Put these narrative parts in the correct order: resolution, opening, climax, reflection, rising action.
What is opening → rising action → climax → resolution → reflection?
Douglass was separated from his mother when he was very young. How was she still able to visit him?
She walked approximately 12 miles at night to see him and returned before morning.
Some people heard enslaved people singing and assumed the songs showed happiness. According to Douglass, the songs actually expressed these emotions.
What are sorrow, pain, sadness, or anguish?
One focuses on the text’s main events or information, while the other focuses on a broader message about life. Name BOTH.
What are central idea and theme?
Read the sentence: “Unlike his talkative brother, Marcus was reserved and rarely spoke to people he did not know.” Using context clues, what does reserved most likely mean?
What is quiet or not very talkative?
“The alarm clock screamed at me from across the room.” What type of figurative language is being used?
What is personification?
This disturbing event involving a relative becomes one of Douglass’s earliest experiences witnessing the violence of slavery.
What is Captain Anthony whipping Aunt Hester?
Why does Douglass explain the meaning of the songs sung by enslaved people?
To show that their singing was an expression of suffering rather than evidence that they were happy in slavery.
A character fails an audition, practices every afternoon for months, auditions again, and earns the lead role. A student says, “Working hard and refusing to give up can lead to success.” What reading skill has the student identified?
What is theme?
A student answers a text-based question correctly but gives no quotation, paraphrase, or reference to the text. According to our notes, what important step is missing?
What is citing textual evidence to support the answer?
In a poem, repeated rhymes and rhythm create a playful, song-like sound. What should a reader explain when analyzing the poem?
How the poem’s structure/rhyme scheme contributes to its meaning, mood, or effect.