Explain how Douglass uses literary devices such as imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to make his experiences vivid for his...

's work stands as a first-person testament to the horrors of slavery, and his purpose
was to help others see that as well. Ultimately, he wanted to open the eyes of Americans who
were ambivalent or outright ignorant of the actual experiences slaves endured. To accomplish a
powerfully persuasive narrative, he relies on many literary devices throughout his
book.

One of the sharpest and most painful images is when Douglass recounts
witnessing the beating of his own aunt as a young boy:

I
have often been awakened at dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of
mine, whom [Captain Anthony] used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she
was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed
to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped;
and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip to make her scream, and
whip to make her...