Literary terms for the life of Fredrick douglass
Genre
A category or a grouping
Subjective
A feature in writing that includes personal feelings or opinions
Objective
A feature that describes writing that factual and has no personal feelings.
Autobiography
A story of a persons life written by that person
Style
A term that refers to not what is said but how its said
Archetype
An original model or prototype
Abolitionist
Someone who works towards abolishing slavery
Slave narrative
Stories written by enslaved people during the mid 1700s through the late 1800s
Fugitive slave law
The law which mandated that captured runaways were to be returned
Middle passage
The name of the slave route across the Atlantic Ocean
1845
Year when Fredrick Douglass wrote his famous narrrative, narrative of life of Frederick douglass
1789
Year when olaudah equinano wrote his well known narrative, narrative of the life of olaudah equiano