PreTeaching Devices in MLK's "I Have a Dream"

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Categorize

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"in whose symbolic shadow we stand..."

"dark and desolate valley of segregation"

"Mighty mountain"

"Come to our nation's capital to cash a check"

"invigorating autumn of freedom"

"Let freedom ring"

"I have a dream"

"It came as a joyous daybreak"

Sort the following examples from King's speech into the correct category.

Which examples use ALLITERATION?

YES, Alliteration

NO Alliteration

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Allusions are well __?__ references to another source.

Match

REVIEW: Match the following ALLUSIONS from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

• "the night's Plutonian shore"

• "Is there a balm in Gilead?"

• "perched on a bust of Pallas"

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refers to HADES - god/world of the dead

Biblical reference to medicine/healing

refers to ATHENA, the goddess of wisdom

• refers to HADES - god/world of the dead

• Biblical reference to medicine/healing

• refers to ATHENA, the goddess of wisdom

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

King is ALLUDING to...

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jesus

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Why does King allude to the Bible in his speech?

• He is preaching a sermon at church.

• He is trying to convert people to Christianity.

• His message of equality is supported by or in agreement with God's words.

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ANAPHORA can be found at the ... of sentences or phrases.

• beginning

• middle

• end

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What creates the ANAPHORA in the passage from King's speech?

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What creates the ANAPHORA in the passage from King's speech?

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Identify the ANTITHESIS:

"It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity."

• daybreak /night

• joyous/night

• end/captivity

• came/end

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Identify the ANTITHESIS:

"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."

• time/brotherhood

• nation/injustice

• lift/from

• quicksand/solid rock

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Identify the ANTITHESIS:

"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain

shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight..."

• valley/hill and mountain

• rough/plain

• crooked/straight

• ALL are correct

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"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the

manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination."

King's METAPHOR compares segregation and discrimination to...

• one hundred years

• manacles [handcuffs] and chains

• being crippled or handicapped

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"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

King's METAPHOR is...

• referring to hatred as "satisfying"

• referring to freedom as a "thirst"

• referring to drinking from a cup

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Writers use IMAGERY because it allows the reader to...

• EXPERIENCE what the author is talking about

• easily COMPARE things for a better understanding

• add EXCITEMENT to the author's message

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"I have a dream that one day even 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."

King is using imagery here to allow the reader to...

• understand what it is like to live in Mississippi

• agree with his dream or vision

• feel or experience what injustice and freedom is like

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Make the statement PARALLEL:

"to work together, to pray together, __ ? __.

• fighting for equality

• knowing we can fix the problem

• to struggle together

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Make the statement PARALLEL:

"[They] have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.

They have come to realize that __ ? __.

• now is the time to end the long night of suffering.

• their freedom is ... bound to our freedom.

• freedom is only achievable through brotherhood and unity.

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TRUE OR FALSE?

Rhetorical questions are meant to be answered out loud.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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TRUE OR FALSE?

The answer to a rhetorical question should be clear or obvious to the audience.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"

We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality."

King's rhetorical question means African Americans...

• will NOT be satisfied until everyone has equal rights

• can NOT be satisfied by Civil Rights

• may NEVER be devoted to our country