Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass.
How does the excerpt best support Douglass's purpose to
inform the reader about slavery?
In a very short time after I went to live at Baltimore, my old
master's youngest son, Richard, died; and in about three
years and six months after his death, my old master,
Captain Anthony, died, leaving only his son Andrew and
daughter Lucretia to share his estate. He died while on a visit
to see his daughter at Hillsborough. Cut off thus
unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property.
It was therefore necessary to have a valuation of the
property, that it might be equally divided between Mrs.
Lucretia and Master Andrew. I was immediately sent for, to
be valued with the other property. Here again my feelings
rose up in detestation of slavery. I had now a new conception
of my degraded condition.
It compares and contrasts Mrs. Lucretia and Master
Andrew as slaveholders.
It contains a graphic description of the abuses that
enslaved persons endured.
It contains a persuasive argument that all human beings
are equal.
It shows how enslaved persons do not have control over
their fate because they are considered property.
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"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

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