Question

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.

Answer 1

The type of rhetorical device that is being used in this sentence would be pathos. It is pathos because this rhetorical device is about appealing to the reader's emotions, and that is exactly what this sentence does. There is a part of the question that could give you a little bit of a hint towards the answer; "... to make the reader feel..."

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