Vocabulary & General Info
This means "To come together in one place"
Converge
This individual does not know their exact birthday
Frederick Douglass
"Bread of Knowledge" is this kind of figurative language
Metaphor
This person was the President during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
The use of imagery & figurative language are used in this literary genre
Poetry
The public condemnation of something that is wrong or evil
Denunciation
This individual is credited to teaching Frederick Douglass to learn how to read
Mrs. Auld
"When a tow truck breaks down and needs to be towed" is an example of
Irony
This is the year that Frederick Douglass was born
1818
Line length, stanzas, and meter are examples of
Form
The authors of "Not My Bones" and "Fortune's Bones"
Marilyn Nelson & Pamela Espeland
The name given to Fortune's Bones
Larry
"My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will..."
is an example of
Extended Metaphor
The Civil War occurred during these years
1861-1865
The kind of structure used in the text "Fortune's Bones"
Chronological Structure
A piece of bone that makes up the spinal column
vertebra
This person is known as the "good gray poet"
Walt Whitman
"Elementary molecules converged for a breath,
then danced on beyond my individual death."
is an example of
Personification
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on this day, just 5 days after the Civil War ended
April 14, 1865
"O Captain, My Captain" is a poem in which the speaker reflects on someone's death, which is also known as
Elegy
The poem "Not My Bones" comes from this book
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
This person recalls playing with Fortune's skeleton as a child
Sally Porter Law McGlannan
"The bones told how Fortune labored, suffered, and died.." is an example of
Personification
This is the Museum and US state in which Fortune's bones were displayed
Mattatuck Museum, Connecticut
The form element that is most prominent in "Not My Bones"
Repetition