Question

Read the following excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, in which Douglass discusses how he slept as a slave on a plantation:

I had no bed. I must have perished with cold, but that , the clearest night, I used steal a bag which was used for carrying corn to the mill.m I would crawl into this bag, and there sleep on the cold, damp clay floor, with my head in and my feet out. How does this passage use objectivity to increase the power of the narrative?


A.it avoids bias by unemotionally telling the facts about how he slept at night.
B. It relies on irony to show that felt warm when he should have felt cold.
C. It avoids sentimentality by showing that the conditions did not bother him.
D. It relies on understatement to share details about how he slept at night

Answer 1

The answer is A because objectivity means without bias. The excerpt did not rely on understatements or irony, so that eliminates B and D. Answer choice C is also incorrect because the excerpt shows that the conditions were bothersome it was just described without emotion. Leaving us with choice A as the correct answer.