To describe the wealth of colonel lloyd would be almost equal to describing the riches of job. He kept from ten to fifteen house servants. he was said to own a thousand slaves, and I think this estimate quite within the truth. In the lines above, Douglass' writing is characterized by the use of: a) responses situational b) irony situational c) irony allusion d) allusion contrast e) contrast verbal f) irony verbal g) irony rhetorical shift