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A quiz on Douglass's rhetoric, credibility, and key scenes in the Narrative.
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In chapter 1, Douglass says he has no accurate knowledge of his age. Which appeal does this opening mainly make?
Douglass writes, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man." Which device is at work?
When Hugh Auld says reading would "forever unfit him to be a slave," how does Douglass use the moment?
When Douglass speaks to the Chesapeake ships as if they can hear him, what device shapes the passage?
Douglass says slave songs are not proof of happiness but signs of sorrow. What appeal does this correction make?
Douglass contrasts the city slave with the plantation slave, saying the city slave is almost free by comparison. What device is central?
The Narrative opens with Garrison and Phillips vouching for Douglass before he tells his story. Why would that matter for his 1845 audience?
Douglass says he will not fully explain how he escaped. What audience concern drives that choice?
Why does Douglass include the Appendix on religion after the narrative proper?
What audience response is Douglass seeking when he links physical brutality with bans on reading?
Douglass names real enslavers such as Colonel Lloyd, Thomas Auld, and Covey, even though he was still legally a fugitive. What risk did this create for him?
The title page says the Narrative is "Written by Himself." Why is that claim rhetorically important?
Douglass begins by saying he lacks a birth record and knows little of his father. What convention of the slave narrative appears here?
Douglass often tells exactly who owned him, where he lived, and what he saw. How does that support the slave narrative form?
Sophia Auld changes from kindly teaching Douglass the alphabet to fiercely opposing his reading. What contrast does Douglass use?
Why is Douglass's attack on "religious slaveholders" ironic rather than a simple attack on faith?
Some outsiders took slave songs as proof of contentment, but Douglass says they came from misery. What contrast is he exposing?
Why does Douglass place Aunt Hester's whipping at the start and call it a "blood-stained gate"?
Douglass calls the fight with Covey the "turning-point" in his career as a slave. What is the scene's rhetorical force?
Why is The Columbian Orator scene more than a memory of a book Douglass read?
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