People
Captain Anthony
The state where Douglass is enslaved.
Maryland
What is the result of the fight Douglass has with Mr. Covey?
Mr. Covey never beats him again.
What is the rhetorical choice?
"“They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone."
a. allusion. b. chiasmus. c. anecdote
b. Chiasmus (Parallelism)
Who is Douglass describing?
"they took her to the woods, built her a little hut, put up a mud-chimney, and then made her...[support] herself there in perfect loneliness."
His Grandmother
First teaches Douglass his ABC's and the beginnings of how to read.
Sophia Auld
Colonel Lloyd's plantation is known as...
The Great House Farm
A root.
What is the rhetorical choice?
"By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs."
a. imagery. b. parallelism. c. simile
c. Simile
Who is Douglass describing?
"he was a cruel man. I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time...he seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity...he was a profane swearer."
Mr. Severe
Douglass's mother.
Harriet Bailey
City where Douglass goes to live with Sophia and Hugh Auld
Baltimore
Planning to escape.
What is the rhetorical choice?
"Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery."
a. hypophora. b. hyperbole. c. metaphorC. Metaphor
Who is Douglass describing?
"______ [was] the best master I ever had, till I became my own master."
Mr. Freeland
Mr. Covey
State that Douglass first arrives in after his escape.
New York
Douglass would give the little boys in Baltimore this in exchange for lessons in writing and reading.
Bread
What is the rhetorical choice?
"My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes."
a. metaphor. b. simile c. personification
a. metaphor
Who is Douglass describing?
________ "gave us enough of neither coarse nor fine food...we were allowed less than half of a bushel of corn-meal per week, and very little else, either in the shape of meat or vegetables...we were therefore reduced to...begging and stealing."
Thomas Auld
Mr. Ruggles
City, State that Douglass moves to and settles in after his escape
New Bedford, Massachussetts
He is trying to protect the routes and specifics to give other enslaved people a chance
"I was kept almost naked -- no shoes, no stockings, no jacket, no trousers, nothing on but a coarse linen shirt."
a. hyperbole. b. polysyndeton. c. asyndeton
c. asyndeton
Who is Douglass describing?
After a whipping, this person "ran and plunged himself into a creek, and stood there at the depth of his shoulders, refusing to come out," which resulted in his murder.
Demby