Vocabulary
the author's word choice
What is diction?
The next morning I was more calm, and I believe that I could then have forgiven everything for the sake of one kind word. In this sentence, Keckley expresses that this one thing would've eased her spirit about being continuously flogged and beaten without reason.
What is an apology?
The author creates surprise in the text. At what point does it emerge?
What is upon the reading of the mother's letters?
What is the law of life?
All living things will inevitably die.
What literary device is used in paragraph 1 of Frankenstein?
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
What is foreshadowing?
what an author thinks, feels, or believes
What caused Mr. Bingham and Mr. Burwell to eventually stop beating and flogging Keckley?
What is sympathy, religion, conscience, or any variation of these answers.
What is the overall theme of the text?
People are not always who or what they seem.
He saw the flashing forms of gray, the gleaming eyes, the lolling tongues, the slavered fangs. And he saw the inexorable circle close in till it became a dark point in the midst of the stamped snow. Inexorable as it is used in the text means:
What is the meaning of the author's allusion to Adam?
If a word evokes a negative emotion, that means it has a negative __________________.
What is connotation?
She whom I called mistress seemed to be desirous to wreak vengeance on me for something, and Bingham became her ready tool. Wreak vengeance means:
What is to make someone miserable? (any variation of this meaning is acceptable)
Paragraph 1 conveys the deceased mother as:
What is a perfect saint?
What literary device is used in this example? The long trail waited while the short day refused to linger. Life called her, and the duties of life, not death.
What is personification?
The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. Refuge means:
What is safety?
True or False: The author's attitude towards their subject is called mood.
False
Keckley uses this literary device to illustrate the brutality she endured as a young woman.
What is imagery?
The author utilizes this literary device in paragraph 1 to increase the impact of future events that unfold in the text. See example:
"....one felt sure a sweet soul had dwelt in that body, that this serene grandmother had spent an untroubled existence, that this virtuous woman had ended her life without any shock, without any remorse."
What is foreshadowing?
In order to convey that generations of fathers and grandfathers simply expire and are eventually forgotten, Old Koskoosh calls them:
What are episodes?
My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings which can arm one being against the existence of another. Impelled means:
What is driven or forced?
This technique is typically used at the beginning of the text, and cautions readers to be observant of any wickedness or evil that may emerge before the text ends.
What is foreshadowing?
Keckley's attitude towards being flogged or beaten without good reason:
What is defiant?
The priest, who drinks irresponsibly and imitates sadness, is an example of this literary device.
What is irony?
Name three things mentioned in the text that exemplify the law of life.
Which line from the text is an example of personification?
a. “advancing towards me with superhuman speed..”
b. “rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance..”
c. “..that it was the wretch whom I created.”
d. “All men hate the wretched..”
What is B?
“rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance..”