Narrative of the life of fredrick douglass
by frederick douglass (excerpt)

i was quite a child, but i well remember it.
i never shall forget it whilst i remember any thing.
it was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which i was doomed to be a witness and a participant.
it struck me with awful force. it was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which i was about to pass. it was a most terrible spectacle.
i wish i could commit to paper the feelings with which i beheld it.

which rhetorical device does the author use in this sentence to make the reader feel the horror and violence the slaves were subjected to?
it was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which i was about to pass.
simile
personification
metaphor
paradox

what did the protagonist say?

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)