Answer: Ben Franklin and Frederick Douglass write the stories of their lives, but Douglass's narrative is inner directed and reveals his innermost thoughts, while Franklin's is outer directed and he writes with posterity in mind. Douglass writes of his suffering in slavery. On the very first page, he says, "A want of information concerning my own [life] was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood." Douglass often uses metaphors and symbols to represent his yearning for freedom. For example, when he looks at the sail boats moving out of Chesapeake Bay towards the ocean, he clearly associates them with his desire to escape north and find freedom.
Explanation:
The literary device used by the author in this passage is Personification.
Personification is a type of metaphor that consists of giving human traits to something that is not human to describe a picture in other's people heads.
In the passage, 1) the wind <em>whispers softly</em> and 2) the stream <em>giggles</em>.
Here are the answers to the given questions above.
1. The <span>two things that F. Scott Fitzgerald is comparing metaphorically by choosing "Babylon Revisited" as the title of his story is this: </span><span>an ancient, ruined city and Charley's former life of excess.
2. How </span>the narrator in Earnest Hemingway's short story "In another Country" views himself in comparison to the other soldiers is that <span>he thinks he is not as brave as they are. Hope this answers your question.</span>
