LFBJ Review & Look Ahead to IHAD

"LFBJ" Review & Look Ahead to "IHAD"

Multiple Choice

What year did MLK write "Letter from Birmingham Jail?"

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

• 1964

Multiple Choice

True or False? One of the goals of the letter and the marches was to end segregation in Birmingham.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The central idea of "Letter" was...

• In time people will see that segregation is wrong

• People in power must be pressured in order to make changes to the laws

• Getting arrested is a normal part of protests

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a rhetorical device that MLK used in his letter:

• repetition

• rhetorical questions

• personal experience

• a call for violence

Multiple Choice

What happened as a direct result of MLK's "Letter?"

• Segregation was immediately ended

• Students marched and were violently arrested, bringing attention to the issue

• MLK was released from jail

Open Ended

In what way(s) did MLK's words have the power to provoke or inspire?

Now Let's Look Ahead to "I Have a Dream"

MLK uses a number of rhetorical devices in this speech, including

• Allusions (reference to someone or something well known)

• Figurative Language (especially metahpors)

• Imagery

• More, like repetition

Open Ended

What is this an allusion to?

Sure, he has a nice house, but it's no pineapple under the sea...

Multiple Choice

What rhetorical device is this excerpt an example of?

"The Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation"

• repetition

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

Multiple Choice

What rhetorical device is this excerpt an example of?

"A great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand in today..."

• metahphor

• allusion

• simile

• repetition

Multiple Choice

What rhetorical device is this an example of?

"We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt..."

• allusion

• metaphor

• repetition

• simile

Open Ended

At one point in "IHAD" MLK says, "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."

MLK uses metaphors to create imagery here. How does this reinforce his point?