Explain how Douglass uses literary devices such as imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to make his experiences vivid for his readers.

Like other great writers, Frederick Douglas uses a variety of literary facilities to make his readers have a lively experience

Below is an example of Douglas using these devices. All from Frederick Douglas's life story and the first two chapters of American slaves.

Mr. Plummer is a poor drunkard, a foolish idiot, and a barbaric monster [he is not a monster but acts like a monster]

There are no words, no tears or prayers from his bloody victims, and it seems to get rid of his iron from his bloody purpose. [His heart is not actually made of iron; it is cruel as iron can not feel emotion.

Soon, a warm red blood (in her horrible screams and a terrible oath from him) dripped on the floor. [Scream is simply a collection of sound waves, it can not tear the heart. The author explains this foreskin as if it were a surgeon with a knife to cut the heart.

By using this literary tool, thoughts, animals and things become human. In other words, since objects, ideas, and others are anthropomorphized, readers can easily associate with what they describe. The use of anthropomorphization in literature has a big impact as it presents more active non-human entities and human attributes. The main purpose of using this device is to attract the reader's attention and their emotional support and make the overall writing stand out and important. In short, it enhances the emotion and sensitivity of the reader.

This image helps the reader imagine the artist's work more realistically. In many cases, images are built on other literary devices such as metaphor, metaphor, anthropomorphism, personification. Because writers appeal to our senses using comparison. One of the most powerful devices in literature is an image that the author uses words and phrases to create a "psychological image" for the reader. The image may also relate to the sensation of a moving or moving body (image of kinesthetic sensation), or details of a person's emotions or emotions such as fear or hunger (organic or subjective images).

The image is a literary device that uses sharp explanations to appeal to the reader's sensation and is often used to squeeze viewers into a fictional world. To Dante Alighieri, the creator of Dante 's Inferno, imagination is an understatement of the metaphor towards hell. By appealing to every possible feeling with the image, Alighieri created a vivid and painful hell. The main character, Dante, has to go through it. In the novel, periodic images enhance the terrible shine of the terrible hell consumed by Dante.