The Authors
Author’s Craft
“Oh Captain”
Comprehension
Say What?
100
Who wrote “Oh, Captain! My Captain!”?
Who is Walt Whitman?
100
The author's use of specific words to impact the reader.
What is word choice?
100
This refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
What is an extended metaphor?
100
Fredrick Douglass paid his "tutors" with...
What is bread?
100
"A friend of a friend."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
She wasn’t afraid to threaten runaway slaves at gunpoint.
Who is Harriett Tubman?
200
The arrangement of words and phrases in sentences used to convey accurate meaning and tone.
What is syntax?
200
A poem in which the writer reflects on death.
What is an elegy?
200
Douglas felt justified attending Lincoln's inaugural gala because...
What is African-Americans were now free and they fought in the Civil War, just like the whites.
200
“We got to go free or die.”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
He said learning to read was “a curse”.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
"....always been welcome, always been given shelter" is an example of this technique.
What is parallelism?
300
The "fearful trip" represents this in the poem.
What is the Civil War?
300
What was the best day for the slaves to escape? Why?
What is Sunday? Those who hunted the slaves were hunting four-legged animals or praying with their families.
300
"Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
Two people in this unit who had biographies written about them.
Who are Frederick Douglass and Harriett Tubman?
400
"She had never used it--except as a threat" is an example of this author's craft technique.
What is sentence variety and punctuation?
400
The "ship" refers to...
What is the United States?
400
They received these at Thomas Garrett's house
What is new shoes?
400
“Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me.”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
Wrote a historical document that has an original copy kept in the Library of Congress.
Who is Walt Whitman?
500
In his autobiography, Douglass starts a paragraph by saying his mistress was “a kind and tender-hearted woman,” and he gives examples to support his statement. Then he explains how slavery caused her to change. “Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.” What writing style is this?
What is Cause and Effect structure?
500
What poetry was considered Walt Whitman’s best work?
What is a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass?
500
In “My Friend Douglass” this event in Lincoln’s presidency.
What is his 2nd Inauguration?
500
“Rise up — for you the flag is flung” — for you the bugle trills.”
Line 2, Stanza 2, of “Oh Captain! My Captain!”
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