I was quite a child, but I well remember it. I never shall forget it whilst I remember any thing. It was the first of a long ser
ies of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle. I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it. Which rhetorical device does the author use in this sentence to make the reader feel the horror and violence the slaves were subjected to?
It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.
A.simile
B.personification
C.metaphor
D.paradox
D. “What she doesn’t tell them is how she feels her pre-rehearsed response drag up her throat, as though she didn’t pick the right words from those that whirl at the bottom of her stomach in response.”
