Douglass uses figurative language and parallel structure of ideas (antithesis) to
emphasize the horror of being enslaved and the desire to be free.
O By using a simile to show how sailboats have the innocence of children with the ocean
symbolizing freedom.
O By using a personification to reveal the feeling of being unable to enjoy the pleasures in life
that freemen were able to appreciate.
O By using a metaphor to show slavery was an acceptable way to live with the ghosts
symbolizing slavery.
O By using a simile to show how slaves lost their freedom and were unfairly captured like
animals with the cage symbolizing slavery.
