American Literature: Literary Concepts

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American Literature: Literary Concepts. Autobiography. An autobiography is a story of a person’s life written by that person. One of the challenges of writing a good autobiography is to combine objective description with subjective feelings Objective – Factual, unprejudiced

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American Literature: Literary Concepts
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Activity • Retell an episode from this selection in a speech Douglass might have delivered to the Anti-Slavery Society.

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