What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
The title of Fredrick Douglass' writing
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
The Latin root "lig" means to bind. What is the definition of ligature?
Something that binds two things tightly.
In the beginning of, The Story of an Hour, the Chopin mentions that Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with a medical issue. What is her complication?
Heart Trouble
What is a noun phrase?
a noun and its modifiers, including articles, adjectives and adjective phrases.
What is Situational Irony?
Something that contradicts readers' expectations
Why did Douglass think that the 4th of July did not represent freedom in America?
Because African Americans were still enslaved during this time.
What sense does the first repetition of "Ain't I a Woman" add to Truth's message.
It adds a sense of anger towards the ideal that the worth of a woman is ignored.
What is the second meaning to the title "The Story of an Hour"?
The emotional and physical affects that a relationship can have in such little time.
What is a verb phrase?
A main verb and its helping verbs, but not any interrupting adverbs, such as not.
Readers or viewers are aware of something that the character does not know.
What was the affect of using parallelism in Douglass' speech?
Enables listeners to sense connections among ideas and helps readers understand Douglass' key points.
"Thank you for listening, I have nothing more to say."
As Mrs. Mallard sits alone in her room, she repeats this phrase: "Free! Body and Soul free!" What does this indicate about her marriage?
Mrs. Mallard's marriage was encasing her to a life she did not enjoy.
Find the TWO noun phrases in this sentence: "Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
-the immeasurable distance between us
What is Verbal Irony?
Someone says something that deliberately contradicts what that person actually means.
Use ONE of the following vocabulary words in a sentence: obdurate, disparity, equivocate, stolid, denounce, and conceded.
Definitions:
Obdurate, resistant to persuasion
Stolid, feeling little or no emotion
Disparity, great difference or inequality
Denounce, criticize harshly
Equivocate, use unclear language to avoid committing oneself to something
Conceded, admitted
What was Truth asking from men in her speech?
What is Kate Chopin's central idea or theme about "The Story of an Hour"?
Find the verb phrases in this sentence: "...I do not despair of this country."
-Do
-Despair
In Romeo and Juliet, characters believe that Juliet is dead, but the audience is aware that she was just asleep, what type of irony is this?
Dramatic Irony
Douglass uses "old language" in his message, how effective would this be towards a modern audience?
What tone does Sojourner Truth use in her speech?
Despair, sadness, and anger, with examples about working in fields, losing her children to slaver, and not being treated equally compared to Northern women.
Why did Mrs. Mallard want to be alone, although she loved her husband?
Because she felt "enslaved" to her husband and if Mr. Mallard was dead, she would be free from his possession.
Identify which phrase is in this sentence from Douglass' excerpt: "We must end the shame of slavery."
Noun Phrase
Mrs. Mallard has been told that her husband has been killed in a railway accident and her first reaction was to be joyous. Identify the type of irony.
Situational Irony