Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass (excerpt)

I was quite a child, but I well remember it.
I never shall forget it whilst I remember any thing.
It was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant.
It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.
I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it.

Which rhetorical device does the author use in this sentence to make the reader feel the horror and violence the slaves were subjected to?
It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.
simile
personification
metaphor
paradox

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The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by your question is the third choice or letter C.

The rhetorical device that the author use in the sentence to make the reader feel the horror and violence the slaves were subjected to is a metaphor.

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