find the literary devices in this poem

Is the use of another person exact words

If one writes logically, he will prove his point. is this sentence correct or contains an unwarranted shift in person?

Rev. simon hosack] entered fully into the feeling of suffering and sorrow which took possession of me when i discovered that a girl weighed less in the scale of being than a boy, and he praised my determination to prove the contrary. which best describes society’s view of boys’ and girls’ abilities during the period in which elizabeth cady stanton lived?