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Question: What figure of speech does Douglass use to emphasize how the very thought of freedom became a torment to him? Metaphor Simile Personification Allusion I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
Douglas uses Personification to emphasize how the very thought of freedom became a torment to him. He personifies freedom, describing it as if it were a living entity that appears, disappears, is heard, seen, and felt. It is portrayed as an ever present tormenter, looking from every star, smiling in every calm, breathing in every wind, and moving in every storm. This helps bring vividness and emotional intensity to his experience.
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