
I Have a Dream: Rhetorical Devices
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- Q1What 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."Parallel StructureAllusionMetaphorRhetorical Question60s
- Q2"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?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.120s
- Q3What 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."Rhetorical QuestionMetaphorAllusionImagery120s
- Q4What 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"?Freedom can be won through returning the bitterness and hatred one has received.Racism is a product of bitterness and hatred.Anger and bitterness are like poisons that we can choose not to drink.Freedom will not likely be achieved by drinking a bitter substance.120s
- Q5Martin Luther King Jr.'s allusion to Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation serves toRemind his audience that they are continuing to fight for the freedom they should have been granted.Remind his audience that history is bound to repeat itself.Remind his audience that they owe their freedom to the former president.Remind his audience that even the American president has no power.120s
- Q6When 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?Appeal to Reason - because it is a fact that segregation strips everyone of their dignity.Emotional Appeal - because loving parents would never want their own children to feel such humiliation120s
- Q7What 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"?To point out that as long as equality between the races doesn't exist in America, then our own Declaration of Independence is based on hypocrisy and falsehood.To point out that America's founding fathers believed that all men are created equal, but not women.To point out that America's citizens and politicians don't know the true meaning of equal.120s
- Q8What 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"To emphasize how horrible of a place Mississippi is at the present time.To emphasize how uncomfortable and suffocating racism and segregation make people feel.To emphasize how much more positive and harmonious the world would be if we put an end to racism and segregation.120s
- Q9When 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?fear and despairrelief and acceptance120s