Name That Appeal
Douglass describes Aunt Hester's whipping in such painful detail that readers feel horror and sadness. Which appeal makes readers feel emotions?
Pathos
At first, this woman had a kind and gentle countenance, and she taught Douglass the alphabet.
Sophia Auld
What did Douglass give the poor white boys in Baltimore in exchange for reading lessons?
Bread
Douglass says the belief that enslaved people sing because they are happy is spurious. What emotion does he say the songs actually express?
Sorrow (sadness)
This word means a state of balance.
Equilibrium
Douglass tells readers he can explain the true meaning of the enslaved people's songs because he was once "within the circle" of singers himself. Which appeal builds trust in the speaker?
Ethos
This man was disgruntled when he found his wife teaching Douglass, and he ordered her to stop.
Hugh Auld
Douglass was mesmerized by this book full of speeches by great luminaries, which he bought with money from shining boots. What was the book?
The Columbian Orator
Enslaved people often told strangers their masters were kind, but Douglass says this happiness was illusory. What happened to the enslaved man who told Colonel Lloyd the truth?
He was sold to a slave trader
This word means a 100th anniversary.
Centennial
Hugh Auld says reading would make Douglass unfit to be a slave. Douglass reasons that if reading makes someone unfit for slavery, then reading must lead to freedom. Which appeal uses this kind of cause and effect reasoning?
Logos
No court ever adjudicated this overseer's crime after he shot Demby in the creek.
Mr. Gore
What did Colonel Lloyd put on his garden fence to catch anyone who took fruit?
Tar
Sophia Auld changed from kind to cruel. According to Douglass, what caused this change?
Slavery (the power of owning a slave)
This word means to speed up a process.
Expedite
Douglass describes his feet being so cracked from the cold that a pen could fit in the cracks. Which appeal is he using to make readers feel sympathy for him as a child?
Pathos
This implacable overseer on Colonel Lloyd's plantation cursed constantly, and the enslaved people saw his death as a mercy.
Mr. Severe
About how many miles did Douglass's mother walk at night to visit him?
12 miles
Mr. Gore claimed that letting Demby go unpunished would set a precedent. What did Gore fear the other enslaved people would stop doing?
Obeying
This word means a public statement of a person's or group's beliefs and goals.
Manifesto
Douglass argues that if slavery were justified by a Bible curse, it would soon stop being justified, because so many enslaved children now have white fathers. Which appeal uses step by step logical argument like this?
Logos
This master showed gratuitous cruelty when he whipped Aunt Hester while young Douglass watched.
Captain Anthony
Douglass learned to write by copying letters that workers wrote on pieces of timber. Where did he see these letters?
At the shipyard
After hearing Hugh Auld's rant, Douglass realized what skill was "the pathway from slavery to freedom"?
Reading
Douglass had to ______ himself for the dangerous task of learning to write in secret.