Iwas quite a child, but i well remember it. i never shall forget it whilst i remember any thing. it was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which i was doomed to be a witness and a participant. it struck me with awful force. it was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which i was about to pass. it was a most terrible spectacle. i wish i could commit to paper the feelings with which i beheld it. 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. a. simile b. personification c. metaphor d. paradox