Rhetorical Devices in Frederick Douglass

Which device is represented in the following quote?: “In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.” (74)

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

• Allusion

• Parallelism

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which rhetorical device is represented by this quote?: “ … that voice, made all of sweet accord, changes to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.”

• Antithesis

• Logos

• Ethos

• Simile

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which rhetorical device is represented by this quote?: “A single word from the white men was enough - against all our wishes, prayers, and entreaties - to sunder forever the dearest friends, dearest kindred, and strongest ties known to human beings.”

• Logos

• Antithesis

• Chiasmus

• Parallelism

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone.”

• Anaphora

• Chiasmus

• Allusion

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"By far the longer part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of others..."

• Imagery

• Logos

• Simile

• Ethos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“At times, he spoke to his slaves with the firmness of Napoleon and the fury of a demon; at other times, he might well be mistaken for an inquirer who had lost his way”

• Allusion

• Simile

• Chiasmus

• Parallelism

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“[Mr. Gore’s] words were in perfect keeping with his looks, and his looks were in perfect keeping with his words."

• Anaphora

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Chiasmus

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

“A great many times have we poor creatures been nearly perishing with hunger, when food in abundance lay mouldering in the safe and smoke-house, and our pious mistress was aware of the fact; and yet that mistress and her husband would kneel every morning, and pray that God would bless them in basket and store!”

• Ethos

• Logos

• Irony

• Parallelism

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood”

• Metaphor

• Pathos

• Irony

• Chiasmus

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

• Irony

• Ethos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5