How do the following devices and structure help achieve the purpose of chapter 11 in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass? Support your...

Douglass'sis, in general, clear, sincere, and straightforward, but he also uses poetic
devices in this final chapter to try to convey the intensity of slavery's cruelty.

For instance, he uses repetition in his sentence structure to create a sense of poetic
rhythm in the following passage, beginning both sentences with "I would." He also
builds a sense of rhythm through assonance, the repetition of words beginning with the same
vowel, such as "ignorant," "imagine," "invisible," and
"infernal:"

I would keep the merciless
slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave. I would leave him
to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his
infernal grasp his trembling prey.

Below is another
example of the same diction. Douglass again uses repetition in sentence structure and this
timein the repeated "l" and "f" sounds. The elevated language is meant to
elevate the plight of the slave:

Let us render
the...