NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS - Grammar and Style EXERCISE 12 STYLE: ALLUSIONS AND SYMBOLS Identify the type of allusioi the following sentences. Label the underlined words: a history educationfliteracy —e.religion —d. terature—_. physical abuse/tortre 10. 11. 2. And if their inerease will do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right. ‘Ihave known him to cut and slash the women’s heads so horribly, that even master would be enraged at his cruelty, and would threaten to whip him if he did not mind himself. ‘To deseribe the wealth of Colonel Lloyd would be almost equal to ibing the riches of Job. ‘He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment’s warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death. Mr. Thomas Lanman, of St. Michael’s, killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out. I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. The head, neck, and shoulders of Mary were literally cut to pieces. Ihave frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress. I then commenced and continued copying the Italics in Webster’s Spelling Book, until I could make them all without looking on the book. . +» Master Andrew — a man who, but a few days before, to give me a sample of his bloody disposition, took my little brother by the throat, threw him on the ground, and with the heel of his boot stamped upon his head till the blood gushed from his nose and ears... ‘They are, in the language of the slave’s poet, WI and gone to the rice swamp dank and lone...” ier, “Gone, gone, sold At times, he spoke to his slaves with the firmness of Napoleon and the fury of a demon.