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Background Facts:Speech
Background Facts II: King
Figurative Language I
The Speech
Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices II
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This was King's persuasive purpose for his speech.
What is to improve civil rights of all Americans?
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This was King's first occupation.
What is pastor?
100

"...manacles of segregation..." is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a metaphor?

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King referred to this past President of the United States at the opening of his speech.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." This is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is alliteration?

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It was in this city that King delivered his "I Have a Dream"speech.
What is Washington, D.C.?
200
King was born on this day.
What is January 15?
200

This type of figurative language is used in the following quote: But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."

What is metaphor?

200

King refers to these two documents when discussing a promissory note to all Americans, emphasizing that all Americans are promised certain rights.

What are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States?

200

"Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed." This is an example of this literary device?

What is repetition?

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It was in front of this building that King delivered his speech.
What is The Lincoln Memorial?
300
This was the name of King's wife.
What is Coretta Scott?
300

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." This is an example of....

What is alliteration or consonance?

300

King compares the broken promises toward blacks to this.

What is defaulting on a financial agreement or a "bad check"?

300

"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land." This is an example of this rhetorical device.

What is repetition/anaphora?

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It was in this year that King delivered his speech.
What is 1963?
400
This person inspired King and his method of protest.
Who is Gandhi?
400

By linking the occasion of his speech to the Emancipation Proclamation and by using Biblical language (reminding listeners that he is a minister), Dr. King uses what kind of literary device?

What is an allusion?

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King uses the image of a valley to represent this.

What are bad times?

400

"....a lonely island of poverty..." This is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a metaphor?

500
This number of people attended the March on Washington.
What is 250,000?
500
It was on this date King was assassinated.
What is April 4, 1968?
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In his speech, Dr. King's repetition of "I have a dream," and "Let freedom ring" are examples of this literary term.

What is anaphora?

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These two words finish King's sentence: We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into __________ __________.

What are physical and violence?

500

"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." This is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a simile?