Vocabulary
To begin or start
What is Commence?
An educated guess
What is inference?
Through the experiences described in the excerpt, Douglass gained...
What is more knowledge about the problem of slavery?
This is the cause of the mistress becoming cruel.
What is the influence of slavery?
This is what Douglass was born into?
What is slavery?
This is a synonym for Dread
What is Apprehension?
Gives an account of the writer's own life.
What is an autobiography?
This was Douglass's purpose for devoting so much space to describing his mistress.
What is to show the influence of slavery on people?
This was the effect of the mistress teaching Douglass the alphabet.
What is Douglass wanting to gain more knowledge?
This is what Douglass gave the boys in exchange for reading lessons.
What is bread?
Synonym for Wisdom
What is Prudence?
The reason for writing, sometimes to inform, educate, or entertain.
What is author's purpose?
This was the message Douglass wanted readers to know about people through his description of his interaction with the white boys.
What is the adults' treatment and attitude toward him as a slave was not natural and the children saw him as a human and not a slave?
Effect: He converts the white boys into his reading teachers.
What is the cause of his mistress stopped teaching Douglass to read?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This was the name of the book Douglass was greatly impacted by.
What is the Columbian Orator?
Keeps its full force without decreasing.
What is Unabated?
One event brings about another event or creates a change in attitude.
What is cause and effect?
This was the reason Douglass did not share the white boys names who taught him to read in his autobiography. (Exact wording from paragraph 4)
What is it is almost an unpardonable offense to teach slaves to read in the Christian country?
Cause: Douglass reads the Columbian Orator.
What is the effect of Douglass begins to desire his freedom?
This is what Douglass wished he was after feeling the ability to read as a curse.
What is a beast?
The public condemnation of something as wrong or evil; a synonym for criticism.
What is Denunciation?
DAILY DOUBLE!
What will people risk to be free?
What is the essential question?
This was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. He saw nothing without feeling it. (Exact wording from paragraph 6)
What is freedom?
Cause: Douglass reads speeches that talk about how people should be treated fairly and how slavery is wrong.
What is the effect of Douglass begins hating the people who keep him as a slave and feels unhappy being enslaved.
Douglass begins to feel this way towards his enslavers. (Exact wording from the text, paragraph 6)
What is abhor and detest them?