Literary Elements
A figure of speech that states that one thing is another thing
What is metaphor?
Uncle Tom
Who is a middle-aged slave (the main character of Uncle Tom's Cabin)?
Child slave that St. Clare purchased partly to entertain Ophelia
Who is Topsy?
The overall plot of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is slavery in the US prior to the Civil War?
How Quaker households are different from UTC households with slaves
Quakers treat enslaved people with dignity, equality, compassion and Christian love (they share food, call them brother and sister and help them escape)
Slaving holding homes treated enslaved people like property or inferior.
(NOTE: The author uses the Quaker home to contrast selfish hypocritical Christianity and model real Christian love and justice).
A technique when 2 or more words are linked that share the same first consonant sound
What is an alliteration?
Uncle Tom's first owners
Who is Mr. and Mrs. Shelby?
The frail, angelic daughter of St. Clare who befriends Uncle Tom
Who is Eva?
Executive order that declared slaves in rebellious states "are, and hencefoward shall be free"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
3 Key issues in the slavery debate
1. Economic concerns
2. States' rights
3. Expansion of slavery into new territories
A series/group of 3 or more words/phrases in a row using the same grammatical form
What is an parallelism?
How Tom encouraged all people around him.
What is to believe in Jesus, so that they could have their sins forgiven and go to Heaven?
Who is Eliza?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Describe the similarities and differences in death scenes of Tom and Eva
Similar: Both deaths are deeply spiritual moments. They both face death with peace, faith, and forgiveness, inspiring others.
Differences: Eva's death is gentle and innocent -surrounded by love and heavenly visions, while Tom's death is violent and sacrificial - marked by suffering and steadfast faith.
A rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or p phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses.
What is an anaphora?
Tom's wife who saved money to buy his freedom and rescue him from slavery
Who is Aunt Chloe?
Cruel slave owner and his two overseers of Legree plantation, hate each other, and beat Tom to death
Who is Simon Legree and Sambo and Quimbo?
An 1857 Supreme Court case where a black man and his wife sued for their freedom
What is the Dred Scott Case?
3 key elements shared by "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" (besides tone and manner)
Both stories focus on
1. Fear in the Human Mind - especially how fear, guilt, and imagination can distort reality (Ex. superstitious nature of Ichabod and paranoia of Poe's narrator)
2.Consequences of Obsession: Ichabod's obsession with wealth and s status leads to his downfall and Poe's narrator's obsession with the vulture eye drives him to murder.
3. Gothic Elements (Darkness): Dark, mysterious tension gives a haunted setting in Sleepy Hollow and Poe's shadowy, dark room matches the disturbed mind
A rhetorical device that pairs exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure
What is an antithesis?
Two personal characteristics that guided Tom's interactions with others and reactions to circumstances?
What is honesty and deep devotion to God?
The senator who helped Eliza escape even though it was against the laws of his state
Who is Mr. Bird?
In UTC, Eva represents 2 things
What is faith and purity?
Lincoln's reasons for issuing Emancipation Proclamation
What is to...
1. Weaken Confederacy - suppress rebellion
2. Strengthen Union
3. Encourage slaves to escape and join Union lines
4. Prevent foreign nations from supporting Confederacy