Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Assorted
Vocabulary
Literary Technique
100

The specific genre of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"

What is slave narrative?

100

The author of the speech "The Hill We Climb"

Amanda Gorman

100

A dangerous place

What is "Belly of the Beast"?

100

A lesson from the story

Theme

200

The argument that depends on logic, that appeals to reason

What is logos?

200

The title of Harriet Jacobs slave narrative

What is "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"

200

Language, culture, standing inherited upon birth

Birthright

200

Opinion of answer based on the text; not explicitly stated

Inference

300

The argument that depends on feelings and evokes emotion and empathy

What is pathos?

300

 One motif from "Code Talker"

The final chapter incorporates the primary motifs of identity, culture, language, and storytelling.

300

At the beginning; where something begins

Inception

300

Sequence of events in a story

Plot

400

The argument that depends on ethics and moral standing

What is ethos?

400

Explain the meaning of the following sentence, "From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like  ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom.” 

That one day he would be free

400

Make great effort to achieve

Strive

400

Problem the character faces or exists in a story

Conflict

500

Name two ways in which enslaved people were oppressed?

 - Withholding education, culture, language, freedom, separating families, no legal representation, no rights, encouraging hierarchy within enslaved community, etc.

500

What does Amanda Gorman mean in the following lines, "We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just” is, isn’t always justice.

That quiet does not equal peace or justice

500

Clean, neat, original condition

What is pristine?
500

A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.

What is a motif?

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