Author's Craft Use of Rhetorical Devices & MLK

Literary Elements

Author's Craft
(style & technique)

Comparing negatives or opposites side by side for dramatic effect.

​​Antithesis

Questions that have obvious answers that are asked to further an argument.

Rhetorical Question

Referring to a well-known person, book, or institution.

Allusion

Multiple Choice

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."

Identify the rhetorical device.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Charged language

• Antithesis

Multiple Choice

"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."

Identify the type of rhetorical device.

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

Multiple Choice

"Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?"

Identify the rhetorical device.

• Parallelism

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Rhetorical Question

Use of the same words or phrases to give key ideas impact.

Repetition

Repetition of the same phrasing in the same way to create rhythm and structure.

​​Parallelism

A direct comparison between two unlike things. Directly stated.

Metaphor

A comparison of two unlikely items using 'like' or 'as.'

Simile

Multiple Choice

"Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi."

Identify the rhetorical device.

• Parallelism

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Analogy

Multiple Choice

"...and we will not be satisfied, and we cannot be satisfied until justice rolls down LIKE waters, and righteousness LIKE a mighty stream."

Identify the rhetorical device.

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Metaphor

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"...when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity..."

Identify the rhetorical device.

• Analogy

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

Identify the rhetorical device.

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Parallelism

• Simile