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Olaudah Equiano

In his book The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano the author, a slave taken from Africa, wrote of his and the others slaves experiences on the slave ship that took them to the West Indies and at the slave auction where they were sold. Equiano and the other slaves faced many brutalities when aboard the slave ship and while at the slave auction. Equiano uses many literary techniques to convey these brutal treatments. Some of the literary techniques he uses are diction, figurative language, and imagery.
Equiano’s diction conveys the brutal treatment of the slaves on the slave ship and at the slave auction. When talking about how he felt when he looked around the ship he ...

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think of the situation they’re in as being uncomfortable not brutal and horrible which is what the word wretched conveys. When talking about the conditions in the hold of the ship Equiano uses the word “pestilential” (104). Sickly would have fit in its place but sickly makes the reader think of a cold or something else not so serious. Pestilential makes the reader think of the hold as being extremely deadly.
Equiano uses figurative language to convey the brutal treatment of the slaves on the slave ship and at the slave auction. Equiano describes when he saw a white crewmember on the ship flogged to death and thrown overboard, “…they tossed him over the side as they would have done a brute” (103). This simile shows how brutal the men on the ship were because if they would do this cruel thing to a man of their own kind, one can only imagine what they would do to one of the slaves. Equiano refers to death as his friend, “I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me” ...

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Added: 2/24/2011 08:30:50 PM
Submitted By: xkrissixo
Category: African Studies
Type: Premium Paper
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