What are some rhetorical strategies Douglass uses in his narrative?

One of the
repeated rhetorical strategies
Douglass employs is the Enlightenment "buzz words" of
light and
dark.

Enlightment thinkers valued reason above all
else.Reason
brought "light" to dark prejudices, myths, and
superstitions.Slaveholders rejected
reason even when presented with
overwhelming "light" of the human dignity and human
rights.For example, he
accuses Garrison of trying to "banish all light and knowledge"
and Douglass
often says that "slaveholders have a hatred of the light."

Futhermore, when Douglass speaks of his mother's personal darkness, he says
that she
was "kept in the dark both literally and figuratively as a child."He
continues,
"I do not recollect ever seeing my mother by the light of day.She
was with me in the
night."

Douglass also rhetorcially
employs biblical language andto show
how the "fruit" of knowledge is denied
to black people.Describing his plantation, he
writes, "the garden...abounded
in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple
of the north"
(*the "north" itself represents freedom and knowledge).Another
passage notes
that the plantation's "excellent fruit was quite a temptstion to the hungry

swarm of boys, as well as the older slaves."The desire for knowledge, Douglass argues,
is
lifelong.