What writing techniques are used in Chapter 7 of Franklin's autobiography?

With the help of novel rhetoric skills, macro skills such as viewpoint control and time distance control, and micro skills such as irony and metaphor, the narrator has achieved a leap from technical fiction to prototype-the display of moral power and the promotion of educational function.

the viewpoint is the angle chosen by the narrator to unfold the narrative or for the reader to better examine the image system of the work and the visual field formed from it. In the dialogue scene, only narrative time and story time are equal by some convention. The so-called speed refers to the time scale and space scale. Irony is regarded as an indispensable and universally effective rhetorical device for narrative literature and even poetry.

Autobiography reveals the narrator's original intention of moral education to readers from different angles by using different novel rhetoric skills. Macro-skill viewpoint control and time-distance control play the roles of conveying the narrator's Taoist intention and persuading readers to accept its moral quality as a whole, while micro-irony requires readers to understand the moral charm in the context and structure of the work and the moral factors in the ancient Greek and Roman culture and the Bible prototype implied in the work. The narrator finally completed his "archetypal fiction", as Sanford concluded, "His autobiography is a great moral fable, which shows the theme of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress on the secular level.