The most influential technique used by Douglass is story telling. He uses little stories, or stories-within-a-story, to make the reader pay attention. With descriptive tales of the plantations he worked on, the beatings and torture of slaves, and learning to read and write, he not only gets the attention of the readers, but he gets them to understand his point of view. For example at the beginning of the narrative Douglass tells a story of his aunt being beating, "I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most hea

These narrative techniques used by Douglass give the reader an in depth look into his life, and persuade the readers it was directed to in the north to join his abolitionist cause. The narrative is a great piece of literature, not only for his day, but for ours because we can learn so much about slavery from it.

rt-rendering shrieks of an own aunt of mine," (3). He goes on and gets even more graphic and descriptive, "The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest." (4). Also early in the novel, Douglass writes of the plantation he grew up on, "There were no beds given the slaves, unless one coarse blanket be considered such," (6). Soon after being sold to Mr. and Mrs. Auld, he was taught the alphabet. He uses this experience to show to his audience that he is very literate despite his masters' wishes, "If you teach that nigger how to read there would be no keeping him," (20). So this story

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