Characters
Narrative Events
Literary Elements
Miscellaneous
Quotables
100
A slave woman, whom Douglass describes as a woman of "noble form, and of graceful proportions, having very few equals," who suffers whippings at the hand of the jealous Captain Anthony.
Who is Aunt Hester?
100
The state in which Douglass was born?
What is Maryland?
100
A rhetorical, literary move in which sarcasm is used by saying one thing and meaning another.
What is verbal irony?
100
Douglass has trouble finding and keeping a job as a caulker because of this.
What is his race?
100
The lesson learned by Douglass when he states, "Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my kind mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master."
What is that reading and writing would help him find freedom?
200
The mistress who first teaches Douglass how to read and write; her disposition towards slaves turns from sympathetic to cruel.
Who is Sophia Auld?
200
This gave Frederick Douglass the confidence to fight back against Covey when he was trapped in the barn and facing a violent beating.
What is a root?
200
The use of sensory details to illustrate a given scene or character.
What is imagery?
200
Slaves sing their songs because they are _____
What is sad?
200
Douglass states the following in relation to the treatment of this man in this portion of his narrative: "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!"
Who is Mr. Covey?
300
This woman becomes engaged to Douglass shortly before his escape.
Who is Anna Murray?
300
Douglass credits these people for helping him learn to read and write.
Who are the white street boys in Baltimore?
300
Something that happens that contradicts a reader's expectations or beliefs on what should be.
What is situational irony?
300
Some slave-owners maintained this double relationship with their slaves. This type of relationship was very difficult and sometimes dangerous for the slaves.
What is both master and father?
300
An example of a literary term: "There was nothing done, and probably nothing would have been done if I had been killed. Such was and such remains, the state of things in the Christian city of Baltimore.”
What is verbal irony?
400
Douglass met this person only a handful of times in his life.
Who is Douglass's mother?
400
Later in the narrative, Douglass contemplates this because he feels hopeless to change his situation as a slave.
What is suicide?
400
A contrast of two statements to illuminate something about an event or character.
What is antithesis?
400
Frederick Douglass arrived on my plantation on the 1st of January, 1833, and I was the first person to have him as a field hand.
Who is Edward Covey?
400
An example of two literary terms: “You are loosed from your mooring, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip!”
What is imagery and antithesis?
500
This person is Douglass's first master and most likely his father.
Who is Captain Anthony?
500
Demby, a fellow slave of Douglass's, suffers this terrible fate at the hands of whom?
Who is Mr. Gore?
500
A passing reference to something else.
What is allusion?
500
Birthdays and familial relations were typically unknown by these people.
Who were slaves?
500
"Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence" relates to this person.
Who is Douglass's mother?
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