Frederick Douglass
The alphabet.
Negro spirituals are religious folks songs indigenous to America but rooted in what continent?
What is Africa?
Whom did Abraham Lincoln blame for the Civil War in his second inaugural address?
Lincoln blames both the northern and southern states.
The repetition of three parallel phrases of clauses of equal length within a sentence.
What is tricolon?
According to Douglass, this was the "pathway from slavery to freedom".
The slaves' learning to read.
Some spirituals encoded information about this network that helped escaped slaves get to free states or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Who is the protagonist of "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" and what is his occupation?
Peyton Farquhar is a southern planter.
This made Abraham Lincoln an effective speaker.
A simple, clear, and accurate style.
A line, lines, or groups of lines repeated throughout a song.
What is a refrain?
The number of times Douglass attempted to escape before he was successful.
What is three.
What spiritual tells the story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt?
What "Go Down Moses"?
The mental as well as the physical horrors if war.
The Gettysburg Address was delivered at this type of dedication ceremony.
What is the dedication of a national cemetery for soldiers.
A technique in which the author reerences events that occurred before the action of the main story.
What is flashback?
What kind of song structure has a singer giving the first and third lines of each stanza with a second singer (or group) replying in lines two and four?
What is call-and-response structure?
In "An Occurrence," what object rang in the condemned man's ears like "the stroke of the blacksmith's hammer upon the anvil"?
His pocket watch.
How did the Civil War effect the literary trends?
The Civil War sounded the death knell of literary romanticism.
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
What is antithesis in the "Gettysburg Address"?
In his narrative, what does Douglass find ironic about what slavery does to the slave owner?
Owning slaves dehumanizes the slave master.
What group began singing Negro spirituals throughout America and around the world to raise funds for the first college open to African Americans?
Who are the Fisk University Jubilee Singers?
Lincoln's intention with the Gettysburg Address.
What is to remind citizens of the founding principles of the country and to unify the people once again.
Peyton Farquhar "was now in full possession of his physical senses. They were, indeed, preternaturally keen and alert. Something in the awful disturbance of his organic system had so exalted and refined them that they made record of things never before perceived."
What is foreshadowing in "An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge"?