"Learning to Read and Write" by Fredrick Douglas

Rhetorical Modes used:

1. Personal Narrative:Told a story

2. Process Analysis: Told of the methods he used

3. Comparison and Contrast: Compared his knowledge of knowing how to read to the slaves who did not know how to read, and the way he felt about knowing how to read to him not knowing how to read.

4. Cause and Effect: Because he used certain methods, he learned to read and write.

Peggie McNeil