front 1 Rhetorical question | back 1 a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. |
front 2 Paradox | back 2 a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. |
front 3 Analogy | back 3 a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. |
front 4 Tone | back 4 a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength. |
front 5 Concession | back 5 a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded. |
front 6 Charged Language or Diction | back 6 words or phrases used to express an opinion or evoke a certain emotion. the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
front 7 Primary source | back 7 an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study. |
front 8 Secondary source | back 8 one that was created later by someone that did not experience firsthand or participate in the events in which the author is writing about. |
front 9 Fredrick Douglass | back 9 African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author |
front 10 Captain Anthony | back 10 probably Douglass's father. Anthony is the clerk for Colonel Lloyd, managing Lloyd’s surrounding plantations and the overseers of those plantation. cruel man who takes pleasure in whipping enslaved people. |
front 11 Hugh and Sophia Auld | back 11 Hugh lives in Baltimore with his wife, Sophia. Hugh is well aware that whites maintain power over Black people by depriving them of education. Sophia was a working woman before marrying Hugh, and she had never "owned" enslaved people. |
front 12 Edward Covey | back 12 A notorious slave “breaker” and Douglass’s keeper for one year. Slave owners send unruly enslaved people to Covey, who works and punishes them. |
front 13 Aunt Hester | back 13 Douglass’s aunt. an exceptionally beautiful and noble-looking woman. Captain Anthony is extraordinarily interested in Hester, and she therefore suffers countless whippings at his hands. |
front 14 William Lloyd Garrison | back 14 Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Immediately impressed with Douglass’s poise and with the power of his story, Garrison hires him for the abolitionist cause. |
front 15 Colonel Edward Lloyd | back 15 Captain Anthony’s boss and Douglass’s first owner. Colonel Lloyd is an extremely rich man who owns all of the enslaved people and lands where Douglass grows up. |
front 16 Betsy Bailey | back 16 Douglass’s grandmother. Betsy raised Douglass on Captain Anthony’s land after Douglass’s mother was taken away. Betsy served the Anthony family her whole life and had many children and grandchildren, who were also enslaved by the Anthonys |
front 17 Captain Thomas Auld | back 17 Lucretia Auld’s husband and Hugh Auld’s brother. Thomas Auld did not grow up in a slave-owner family, but gained them through his marriage to Lucretia. |
front 18 Serial commas | back 18 a term that describes the use of a comma before the conjunction in a list of three or more items |
front 19 Parallelism | back 19 a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. |
front 20 Tone | back 20 reveals the author's attitude about a subject or topic to their reader |
front 21 ROOT: -firm- “strong” “steadfast” Confirm: | back 21 prove the truth of; verify |
front 22 ROOT: -vict-/-vinc “conquer” Conviction: | back 22 strong belief: certainty |
front 23 ROOT: -mon- “show”; “point out” Demonstrate: | back 23 show how to do something |
front 24 ROOT: -sta- “stand” Establish: | back 24 set up; prove; demonstrate |
front 25 ROOT: -ple- “fill” Supplement: | back 25 something added |