Point Of View : First Person

First Person Point Of View: Tells the story with the first person pronoun "I," and is a character in the story. This narrator can be the protagonists (the main character or hero/heroine), a participant (a secondary character), or an obsever( a character who merely watches the action).

Example:
"I couldn't stand it any longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again.... "

In this quote the main character is talking about how he ound a sack of money hidden in a cave. Also how Widow Douglass took care of him like he was her son. Yet he didn't like the way they lived so he flew away.

Synecdoche

Synechdoche: A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing.

Example:
" I lit out."
( Adventurs of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Pg.1)

This example is a synecdoche because it could mean that he cought on fire. But it's real meaning in the book is "I left."

Imagery

Imagery: Sensory details or figurative language used to describe , arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. May use terms related to the five sences: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfatory imagery. May be used with other figures of speech, especially metaphor and simile, to create a strong, unified sensory impression.

Example:
" I had been at my new home but one week before Mr.Covey gave me a very severe whipping, cutting my back, causing the blood to run and raising ridges on my flesh as large as my little finger."

This is imagery because we can visualize the severe whipping. Even though it does not contain the five senses. It only uses visual, and tactile because we can "feel" the ridges on his back.

Begging the Question

Begging the Question: Often called circular reasoning, begging the question occurs when the believability of the evindence depends on the believability of the claim. On other words, one assumes a statement to be true when it has not been proven to be so.

Example:
Does he, while ploughing, break a plough,-or, while hoeing, break a hoe? It is owing to his carelessness, and for it a slave must always be whipped."

This is begging the question because we don't really know if someone actually got whipped for breaking a hoe. We think this is true because throught the book we see how people got whipped for not doing anything wrong.

Ambiguity

Ambiguity: The multiple meanings, eather intentional or unintentional, of a word, prase, sentence, or passage. Ambiguity implies that either meaning could be correct.

Example:
" I began to want to live upon free land as well as with Freeland;..."

Douglass intentionally created this as an abigous sentence because he's talking about the actual land where he can be free. But at the same time, he says he rather stay with Mr.Freeland because he treated him pretty well. He liked the way he lived with Mr.Freeland but he knew that he would be more happy if he had his freedom, even thought he felt liek he was free with Mr.Freeland.

Clause

Clause: A gramatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. An independent, or main, clause expresses a complete thought anc can stand alone as a sentence. A dependent, or subcordinate, clause cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause.

Example:
" I considered him as  getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him."

This is a clause because in this quote the independent clause is "I had from him" [talking about the blood] and the dependent clause is "he had drawn no blood from me."

Balanced Sentence

Balanced Sentence: Construction in which both halves of the sentence are about the same length and importance.

Example:
" To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other."
(Frederick Douglass, Pg. 150)

This is a balanced sentence because both of the lines are important. The first part talks about being friends with someone that hurt you. And he's saying that if he became friend with one person he must become the enemy of the other one.