What Is The Life Of Frederick Douglass Rhetorical Devices

In the passage from “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” in the third paragraph Douglass is trying to convey apostrophe, because it contrasts with his development. Douglass' utilization of grammar and metaphorical dialect set this passage separated and fortify Douglass' exhibit that in spite of the way that servitude would leave the reader "behold a man transformed into a brute" (16-17), slaves were not creatures but rather men, with dreams and yearnings of their own.

He wants to show a distinction between his daily life and his most inner thoughts from paragraph one to paragraph three. He first does this by using a antithesis “You are looked from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave!” (33-34) this is when he starts to shift how is talking. He is talking to the ships, getting deeper into his feelings.

While in paragraph one and two he uses longer sentences, this is because he wants to be more narrative in the first paragraphs. By using longer sentences he is being more in depth and descriptive whereas in paragraph three he gets straight to the point by using shorter sentences. This signals how he wanted you to notice the
O, that I were on one of your gallant decks” by using this parallelism in this passage only in paragraph three he demonstrates addition to the strong emotion in paragraph three. This difference reinforces Douglass’s rhetorical analysis. The use of an apostrophe as one of his stylistic elements also rhetorical questions and exclamatory sentences to reinforce his rhetorical purpose in this passage. He uses in total nine exclamation marks only in paragraph three. This is due to his emotion and feelings that is displayed through that paragraph. He mainly talks about how he was treated, but uses a lot of pathos in this paragraph because he wants you to feel how he felt and be able to imagine what he had to go