Thursday, November 12, 2009

Fredreick Douglass

5 styles:
Figurative: I expected every movement that my brains would be dashed out against the trees." (pg 563)

Word Choice: "My car was upset and shattered..." (pg 563)

Elaborate: "His comings were like a thief in the night." (pg 565)

Formal: "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died..." (pg 565)

Conversational: "He spoke to me very kindly, bade me drive pigs from a lot near by and passed on towards the church." (pg 569)

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