Literary Features in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass as told by Himself
- Allegorical names
- Mr. Gore and Mr. Severe
- Puns and other wordplay
- Mr. Gore was a grave man.
- Chiasmus
- “He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man” (12-13).
- Alliteration
- “His presence was painful; his eye flashed confusion; and seldom was his sharp shrill voice heard, without producing horror and trembling in their ranks” (13).
- Metaphor and Allusion
- The master’s garden and the tar fence…perhaps