Unit 8B Review

How do paragraphs 1-6 of the Narrative of Frederick Douglass Chapter 1 contribute to the meaning of text with the idea of slavery?

• A. By using dialogue to show how Douglas felt about slavery.

• B. By using narration to give a detailed account of slaves’ experiences.

• C. By using imagery to show how slavery was opposed.

• D. By using descriptive language to show slaves overcame slavery.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

PART A (Read the excerpt from Paragraph 8):

" It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle."

In paragraph 8, Douglas describes his aunt being whipped. What does Douglass compare his viewing of this whipping to?

• A. An entrance

• B. A flight of stairs

• C. A bottomless pit

• D. A broken toy

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CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Part B:

" It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle."

How does the author convey meaning in this section?

• A. He highlights the strength of Mr Plummer through metaphor.

• B. He tells the frequency of whippings by using idioms.

• C. He tells his perspective of slavery by using a metaphor.

• D. He shows how shocking a whipping is by using hyperbole.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a rhetorical appeal?

• A. Something the reader uses to change the author's mind

• B. Something an author uses to make you disagree with them

• C. Something an author uses to make their point

• D. Something an author uses to persuade you to agree with them

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What are the 3 main rhetorical appeals?

• A. Ethos: Emotions

  Logos: Logic

  Pathos: Ethics

• B. Ethos: Logic

  Logos: Emotions

  Pathos: Ethics

• C. Ethos: Ethics

  Logos: Logic

  Pathos: Emotions

• Ethos: Ethics

  Logos: Emotions

  Pathos: Logic

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following Excerpt from Chapter 2 in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. (Paragraph 13)

“I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy.

How does the author support or advance an appeal? (R.3.4)

• A. The author uses recurrence of a thing (repetition) to appeal to the reader’s emotion by mentioning that they were mistaken.

• B. The author uses an example that is the opposite reality (irony) to appeal to the reader’s reasoning of how mistaken the people of the north were about the meaning of the slaves’ singing.

• C. The author’s uses a question without an expected answer (rhetorical question) to appeal to the reader's belives about slaves’ singing.

• D. The author uses words that do not represent the literal meaning (figurative language) to appeal to the readers morals by describing how wrong the people in the north were about the meaning of the slaves’singing.

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CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

How does the author use figurative language to convey possible central ideas and symbolism in the passage excerpt? (R.3.1)

“The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.” (Paragraph 12)

• A. By using personification to show how the slaves’ songs found its way down his cheek symbolizing the sadness that he could feel when listening to these songs.

• B. By using metaphor to show how the slaves’ songs found its way down his cheek symbolizing the sadness that he could feel when listening to these songs.

• C. By using personification to describe how the slaves’ songs make him feel so sad that he even cries when he remembers them.

• D. By using metaphor to describe how the slaves’ songs make him feel so sad that he even cries when he remembers them.

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CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

Which of the following is a rhetorical device?

• A. Figurative Language

• B. Irony

• C. Rhetorical Question

• D. Antithesis

• E. All of these

Which rhetorical device uses parallel structure (matching sentence structure) to contrast thing that are opposites?

• A. Antithesis

• B. Irony

• C. Rhetorical Question

• D. Figurative Language

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Part A: How does Frederick Douglass develop the central idea that death is better than being enslaved in Chapter 10?

• A. By using metaphor

• B. By using simile

• C. By using hyperbole

• D. By using personification

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2