Rhetorical question

a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Paradox

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

Analogy

a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Tone

a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.

Concession

a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded.

Charged Language or Diction

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.

Primary source

an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.

Secondary source

one that was created later by someone that did not experience firsthand or participate in the events in which the author is writing about.

Fredrick Douglass

African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author

Captain Anthony

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.

Hugh and Sophia Auld

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.

Edward Covey

A notorious slave “breaker” and Douglass’s keeper for one year. Slave owners send unruly enslaved people to Covey, who works and punishes them.

Aunt Hester

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.

William Lloyd Garrison

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.

Colonel Edward Lloyd

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.

Betsy Bailey

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

Captain Thomas Auld

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.

Serial commas

a term that describes the use of a comma before the conjunction in a list of three or more items

Parallelism

a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

Tone

reveals the author's attitude about a subject or topic to their reader

ROOT: -firm- “strong” “steadfast”

Confirm:

prove the truth of; verify

ROOT: -vict-/-vinc “conquer”

Conviction:

strong belief: certainty

ROOT: -mon- “show”; “point out”

Demonstrate:

show how to do something

ROOT: -sta- “stand”

Establish:

set up; prove; demonstrate

ROOT: -ple- “fill”

Supplement:

something added