I Have a Dream
Rhetorical Devices
Letter From Birmingham
Poetry
MLK assassination
100

Washington DC

What city did MLK give this speech in?

100

Rhetorical Device

What is a device used to persuade someone of something?

100

Why does MLK write the Letter from Brimingham Jail?

To respond to eight white clergymen that wrote to him.

100

Stanza

What is a group of lines in a poem?

100

Robert Kennedy

Who gave the speech announcing MLK's assassination?

200

The Lincoln Memorial

Where did MLK give his "I have a dream" speech?

200

Simile

Comparison using like or as

200

An outsider

What was MLK accused of being because he was not from Birmingham?

200

End stop

What is a line that ends with any type of punctuation?

200

Memphis, Tennessee

Where was MLK shot and killed?

300

What is MLK's dream?

Equality for everyone, regardless of race.

300

Allusion

What is an indirect reference to something or someone well known?

300

Just and Unjust

What are the two types of laws MLK describes in his letter?

300

Who are the men in white gowns in "Incident"?

the KKK
300

Indianapolis 

Where does Robert Kennedy give his remarks on MLK's assassination?

400

How much time has passed between the Emancipation Proclamation and this speech?

100 years

400

Pathos

What is persuading someone by using emotion or charged language?

400

How many steps are there in any nonviolent campaign, according to MLK?

4

400

Enjambment

What is a line break where there is no punctuation?

400

Go home and pray.

What is Robert Kennedy's advice to the crowd after announcing MLK's death?

500

What is the most famous rhetorical device MLK uses in "I Have a Dream"?

Repetition 

500

Logos

What is persuading someon using facts or logic?

500

What is the third step in any non violect campaign?

Self-purification

500

Who are the people Margaret Walker is referring to in "For My People"?

African-Americans

500

What happened in every other city except Indianapolis after MLK's death?

Riots

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