Russian folk and revolutionary songs.
You can tell they are songs because the picketers were singing as they marched.
Indicates a state of reality.
Indicative verbs state what is going on at that moment, or what could very possibly happen.
e.g "I run through the forest".
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs has a classic, conversational and realistic style in which the reader feels as if he were talking to the protagonist. The narration is simple and attractive as in "I was born a slave, but I never new it till six years of happy childhood has passed away". Another key stylistic feature is the directness when addressing the reader as in "Reader, did you ever rate? I hope not".
I think it's A) the works cited page.
A main even of Douglass autobiography is the whipping of Aunt Hester, he includes details about the bloody nature of the whipping. He refers to her ""heart rending shrieks as he whipped upon her naked back 'til she was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers from his gory victim seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream and whip her to make her hush. And not until overcome by fatigue would he cease to swing the blood clotted cow skin." The words he used made up a powerful image. The image was to stir up emotions of the reader and persuade them