Helen Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts. In all, he wrote 12 books and many articles, including but not limited to: The Story of My Life, Optimism, The World I Live In, The Song of the Stone Wall, Out of the Dark, My Religion, Midstream- My Late Life, Peace at Eventide, Helen Keller in Scotland, Helen Keller's Journal, Let Us Have Faith, Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, and The Open Door. Helen Keller took an autobiographical approach to her writing, chronicling moments from her past and how she perceived the world. Although informal, her writing style is intimate with a desire to communicate her struggles in a confident and successful way. Helen Keller uses figurative language and descriptions as well as many rhetorical strategies including metaphors, similes, personification, and diction to expose her emotions. In Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, she entices the reader by forcefully admitting her fears by saying, "I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings to my childhood like a flower of gold....