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