Examples Of Parallelism In Frederick Douglass

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In the beginning of Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (1845) Douglass applies various forms of rhetorical devices to portray the hardships that he suffered through as a child. Through Douglass’s utilization of imagery mixed with parallelism and anecdotes from his personal experiences in his life that paints gruesome and cruel images in the mind of his audience, such as when he goes into detail of the whippings and beatings that he witnessed his aunt undergo vividly describing her “heartrending shrieks” and depicting her as the “gory victim” that was “literally covered in blood”. (Douglass 20) Implementing such strong imagery Douglass strives to spark emotion in his audience in order to make them feel pity when