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What device is used here?: "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds."
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Parallel Structure
Allusion
Metaphor
Rhetorical Question
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"With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day." What does the use of parallel structure emphasize in this passage?
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That segregation divides society in many ways.
That it will take faith to overcome racism.
That freedom is no longer precious.
That jails should no longer be segregated.
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What device is used here?: "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds."
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"With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day." What does the use of parallel structure emphasize in this passage?
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What device is used here?: "We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities."
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What point does Martin Luther King Jr. make when he says, "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred"?
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s allusion to Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation serves to
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When MLK says, "We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only," what kind of appeal is he making?
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What is MLK's purpose in using the following allusion: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal"?
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What is the purpose of King's use of metaphors in the statement?: "I have a dream that one day even in the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice"
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When King says the Emancipation Proclamation" came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity," what emotions does he equate with slavery?
