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Literary Elements
POS: What am I?
100
Atlanta, Georgia
Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
100
Leader of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
1964 at the age of 35
When did King win the Nobel Peace Prize?
100
"Leave the nest" "Bury the hatchet" "Raining cats and dogs"
What are idioms?
100
Table, car, student, book
What is a noun?
200
Morehouse College
What college did Martin enter at 15?
200
Coretta Scott
Who did Martin marry?
200
Lincoln Memorial
What is the site of King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
200
"I have a dream" . . . "I have a dream" . . . "I have a dream"
What is repetition?
200
Run, play, write, read
What is a verb?
300
Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus.
Who were three important influences on MLK?
300
Lasted an entire year in Montgomery, Alabama
What was the bus boycott?
300
August 28, 1963
What is the date of the March on Washington where King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech?
300
August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial.
What is setting?
300
Beautiful, blue, old, heavy
What is an adjective?
400
People should not obey a bad law.
What is "Civil Disobedience?"
400
Tore open the front porch and smashed the living room windows.
What is the bombing of Martin's house?
400
April 4, 1968
What is the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated?
400
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
What is allusion?
400
I, you, he, she, it
What is a pronoun?
500
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the 1st church where Martin was pastor?
500
SCLC
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
500
. . . I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
What is the last speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave?
500
". . .seared in the flames of withering injustice." "In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check."
What is figurative language?
500
Quickly, beautifully, lazily, carefully
What is an adverb?