"Learning to Read and Write" by F. Douglass

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• Douglass, formerly a slave, educated, eager to learn

Question 2

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• reflection on his past, hist struggle to gain an education

Question 3

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• people who face similar obstacles to the ones he faced

Question 4

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• to argue that education is a form of freedom everyone should enjoy

Question 5

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• elevated diction, appeals to pathos

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• deeply disgusted shifting to triumphant

Question 7

conveying information directly to the reader

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audience

Question 8

the words “heavenly smiles” and “tranquil music” elicit feelings

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tone

Question 9

insight to the message of the text

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purpose

Question 10

information about the narrator’s circumstances

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speaker