Read the following excerpt from Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: We were not regularly allowanced. Our food was coarse corn-meal boiled. This was ca

Read the following excerpt from Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave:

We were not regularly allowanced. Our food was coarse corn-meal boiled. This was called mush. It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground. The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush.

How does the objective style of this excerpt add power to the story?

A. It focuses on facts about mush without including Douglass's own opinion of it.

B. It uses a simile that refers to the children as "pigs" to avoid sentimentality.

C. It understates the qualities of mush so that Douglass appears unbiased.

D. It uses strong imagery to describe mush in order to appeal to the reader's senses.