Read the following excerpt from frederick douglass's narrative of the life of
frederick douglass, an american slave:
we were not regularly allowanced. our food was coarse
corn-meal boiled. this was called mush. it was put into a
large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the
ground. the children were then called, like so many pigs,
and like so many pigs they would come and devour the
mush
how does the objective style of this excerpt add power to the story?
a. it uses strong imagery to describe mush in order to appeal to the
reader's senses.
b. it understates the qualities of mush so that douglass appears
unbiased.
c. it focuses on facts about mush without including douglass's own
opinion of it.
d. it uses a simile that refers to the children as "pigs" to avoid
sentimentality