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Vocabulary
Characters in Harriet Tubman
Literary Elements and terms
Plot and setting
100
To rise in rebellion
What is revolt?
100
Harriet's name as a child.
Araminta, Minta, or Minty
100
The novel, Harriet Tubman, begins in 1821 Maryland.
What is setting?
100
The slaves believed this to be the hardest work given out, and therefore didn't want Harriet be assigned to it when she got older.
What is field work?
200
The act of setting slaves free after the master's death.
What is manumission?
200
Harriet's mother
Who is Old Rit?
200
The description of Harriet Tubman. Example: "She was a solemn-eyed, shy little girl, slow of speech, but quick to laugh."
What is imagery?
200
This is why so many of the slaves owned by Edward Brodas and nearby plantation owners are thinking of escaping more so now than ever before.
Selling slaves
300
Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline
What is recalcitrant?
300
She feared change and believed that if she and her family remained loyal, then the master would set them free.
Who is Old Rit?
300
The part of the plot structure that details the beginning of Harriet's life.
What is exposition?
300
The consequence of Denmark and his followers getting caught after massacring white men in Charleston.
Hanged or executed
400
Network of secret routes and safe houses that were established to lead slaves from the south to the north.
What is the underground railroad?
400
He and his followers revolted against the plantation owners of Charleston, South Carolina because he believed all men were born free.
Who is Denmark Vessey?
400
In the novel, Harriet Tubman, whites in the south own slaves who desire and deserve to be free.
What is conflict?
400
This was the religious figure that Denmark used to persuade his people that they could achieve freedom.
Moses
500
To come to a conclusion or a guess about something based off of the text provided.
What is inference?
500
He was the plantation owner in Maryland who owned many slaves, including Old Rit and her family.
Who is Edward Brodas?
500
The novel, Harriet Tubman, is a non-fiction work that details the life of a historical person from a 3rd perspective. (genre)
What is biography?
500
Where the slaves lived crowded together.
The Quarter