Thursday, November 12, 2009

From the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglass

Formal
Conversational
Use of Dialogue
Tone
Word Choice

Use of Dialogue:
" He would occasionally say he didn't want to get hold of me again. "No, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before."
Tone:
he would rise nearly in our midst, and scream out, "Ha, ha! Come, come! Dash on, dash on!"
Converstaional:
"Take hold of him, take hold of him!"
Word Choice:
"The dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!"

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