Literary Features in Narrative

Literary Features in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass as told by Himself

1. Allegorical names

• • 1. Mr. Gore and Mr. Severe

1. Puns and other wordplay

• • 1. Mr. Gore was a grave man.

1. Chiasmus

• • 1. “He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man” (12-13).

1. Alliteration

• • 1. “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).

1. Metaphor and Allusion

• • 1. The master’s garden and the tar fence…perhaps