Read the following prompt and type your response in the space provided.

read the passage. i have been frequently asked how i felt when i found myself in a free state. i have never been able to answer the question with any satisfaction to myself. it was a moment of the highest excitement i ever experienced. i suppose i felt as one may imagine the unarmed mariner to feel when he is rescued by a friendly man-of-war from the pursuit of a pirate. in writing to a dear friend, immediately after my arrival at new york, i said i felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions. this state of mind, however, very soon subsided; and i was again seized with a feeling of great insecurity and loneliness. i was yet liable to be taken back, and subjected to all the tortures of slavery. this in itself was enough to damp the ardor of my enthusiasm. but the loneliness overcame me. there i was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger; without home and without friends, in the midst of thousands of my own brethren-children of a common father, and yet i dared not to unfold to any one of them my sad condition. i was afraid to speak to any one for fear of speaking to the wrong one, and thereby falling into the hands of money-loving kidnappers, whose business it was to lie in wait for the panting fugitive, as the ferocious beasts of the forest lie in wait for their prey write one paragraph that identifies the metaphors in this passage.

then explain why douglass uses those metaphors. what is the effect? what is douglass trying to explain or convey?

" I have been frequently asked how I felt when I found myself in a free State. I have never been able to answer the question with any satisfaction to myself." As said in the passage. There are a few other sentences that could help.

-Douglas uses metaphors because they were symbolic to his life experience.

-The effect is the irony of these statements to raise awareness of what he is saying.

-He tries to explain the experience of living a life, the difficulties, etc.

Explanation:

-Douglas uses metaphors because they were symbolic to his life experience.

-The effect is the irony of these statements to raise awareness of what he is saying.

-He tries to explain the experience of living a life, the difficulties, etc.

"I have been frequently asked how I felt when I found myself in a free state. I have never been able to answer the question with any satisfaction to myself." as said in the passage. there are a few other sentences that could.

she swerves to avoid the turtle.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."