What are the literary devices in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

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several types of figurative language in his narrative one of which is.  Specifically, Douglass
makes many Biblical allusions in the narrative to question the interpretation of Biblical
passages in their support of slavery.  Early in the narrative, Douglass discusses the phenomenon
of slaves multiplying on plantations because masters had gotten into the habit of having
intercourse with their female slaves.  Douglass says that if nothing else, the new class of
biracial people "will do away with the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and
therefore American slavery is right."  Douglass makes an allusion to the passage in the
Bible where Ham is cursed for seeing his father naked.  It had been a widely held belief that
Africans and other black people are the decendents of Ham, which was therefore used as a
justification for enslaving them.  Douglass, however, challenges this idea by stating that many
slaves were the decendents of white...