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Style/Lit. Elements
100
The author of the book
Frederick Douglass
100
This is the reason why there are no authentic records of Douglass's birth.
Slave owners kept their slaves ignorant of their birth dates
100
The reasons why Douglass did not have a relationship with his mother.
It's a custom to separate slave children from their mothers
100
The rhetorical appeal that is used in Douglass's explanation of what happens to his grandmother.
Pathos
200
The person who caused Douglass to understand that they pathway from slavery to freedom was literacy/education.
Mr.Hugh Auld
200
Give 2 ways Douglass learned to read and/or write.
At teacher discretion
200
Douglass's purpose in writing this book
To persuade others to support abolition
200

"Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine." What stylistic technique is used here?

Parallel Structure/Parallelism
300
This person tried to break Douglass, but instead, instilled a greater desire to escape the bondage of slavery.
Mr. Covey
300

Douglass states, “the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!" Later, he tells the reader, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man." This event causes Douglass to regain his hope and humanity.

Defeating Covey
300
The reason Sophia Auld changes her demeanor towards Douglass.
Her husband told her to/Society demanded it of her
300

The literary element used here: "It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass."

Metaphor
400
This person caused Douglass to enter the "blood-stained gate of slavery" when he witnessed her being brutally whipped.
Aunt Hester
400
The reason the slaves call Mr. Covey "the snake."
He surprises them by sneaking through the tall grass
400
The reason Douglass is kind of happy Hugh Auld stops his reading lessons.
Auld unknowingly gives Douglass the key to escape slavery
400

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination. What literary element is being used here?

Juxtaposition
500
This person was Douglass's master and possibly his father.
Captain Anthony
500
The place Douglass learns a trade as an apprentice in Baltimore.
A shipyard
500
The reason Douglass refers to Thomas Auld as a "pious slaveholder"--
To show the hypocrisy of Southern Christian slaveholders
500

"That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon." What stylistic technique is used here?

Juxtaposition