Identify the author of the passage below: . . . [A]mongst th…

Identify the author of the passage below: . . . [A]mongst the poor chained men, I found some of my own nation, which in small degree gave ease to my mind. I inquired of these what was to be done with us? They gave me to understand we were  to be carried to these white people’s country to work for them. I then was a little revived, and thought, if it were no worse than working, my situation was not so desperate; but still I feared I should be put to death, the white people looked and acted, as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among any people such instances of  brutal cruelty; and this not only shown towards us blacks, but also to some of the whites themselves.

The following quotation from Olaudah Equiano’s narrative inc…

The following quotation from Olaudah Equiano’s narrative includes an example of which literary device? “We were conducted immediately to the merchant’s yard, where we were all pent up together, like so many sheep in a fold, without regard to sex or age” (A-662).