Question

Excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in the early 1800s. He would escape and become a famous writer, orator, and politician. A leader in the abolitionist movement, Douglass's memoir detailed his life as a slave and his hunger for freedom. Published in 1845, this memoir fueled the abolitionist movement and is considered one of the most influential abolitionist texts.


Which option best describes the organization of ideas in paragraph 1?

chronological order

problem and solution

cause and effect

compare and contrast

Answer 1

Chronological order. It’s listing events in the order they happened.

Answer 2

chronological order

Step-by-step explanation:

It is a very summarized telling of Frederick Douglass' story, but it does start with he being born and states many other things in an order that obeys the sequence of events that happened in his life (escaping, becoming a writer, writing a memoir and so on). Considering this, we can assume that it is in chronological order.