Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. My Dear Friend: You remember the old fable of "The Man and the Lion," where the lion complained that he should not be so misrepresented "when the lions wrote history." I am glad the time has come when the "lions write history.” In this excerpt, the writer refers to a fable. When a writer refers to another piece of literature like this, it is called an . allegory allusion alliteration onomatopoeia