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 letter to Frederick Douglass, the writer uses an
to a fable.
Allegory
Alliteration
Antithesis
Allusion