Rhetorical Devices
Using the same words repeatedly to make a point
What is repetition?
Dr. King references this document that ensures the rights of equality for all.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This word means to fail to keep a promise or repay.
What is "default"?
This phrase defines Dr. King's speech as a text that has influence on later laws, ideas, or other developments in the future.
What is a "seminal document"?
Dr. King cites the lyrics to this song.
The art of using language to persuade, instruct, inform, or entertain.
What is rhetoric?
Dr. King references this past president in both his speech and the location of the delivery of his speech.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
This word describes something that is unhappy or lonely.
What is "desolate"?
Dr. King references the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in his speech to emphasize what guarantee for all Americans?
What are equal rights?
Dr. King claims his dream is rooted in this other dream.
What is the American Dream?
Repeating a grammatical structure or rhythm of words to create rhythm and momentum
What is parallelism?
In an extended metaphor, Dr. King compares the broken promises the Declaration of Independence for equality and justice for African Americans to this.
What is a promissory note?
This word describes something that causes freedom or salvation.
What is redemptive?
Instead of "bitterness and hatred" and "physical violence", Dr. King reminds his audience to conduct their struggle for justice on the "high plain" of what two ideals?
What are "dignity and discipline"?
Dr. King's desire that his audience is persuaded by the call to action from his speech, is an example of what element of the rhetorical situation?
What is the purpose?
An author's attitude toward a subject or audience.
What is tone?
This event serves as the location for Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This word means something that is impossible to untangle.
What is "inextricably"?
When Dr. King poses the question "When will you be satisfied," he responds that "we are not satisfied until" these two things roll "down like waters" or "like a mighty stream"?
What are "justice" and "righteousness"?
This element of the rhetorical situation describes the type of text that is created by a writer or speaker.
What is "genre"?
These are the tools of language that writers use to create an effect.
What are rhetorical devices?
This location is referenced as the "hallowed spot" where where Dr. King gave his speech.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
This word means to decline morally.
What is "degenerate"?
Dr. King uses the metaphor (lines 115-116) in the phrase “every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low” to express this dream all Americans?
What is equality?
This element of the rhetorical situation describes the situation that PROMPTS the creation of a text, such as Dr. King's speech.
What is "exigence"?