Figurative Language in I Have a Dream Speech

Simile, Metaphor, Personification: Famous Speeches

Rhetoric (The art of speaking)

Figurative language paints a picture with words. Tody we are identifying Simile, metaphor, and personification in famous speeches. Watch this video if you have not.

Can you EXPLAIN the figurative language in these examples?

They are all excerpts from famous speeches

Multiple Choice

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Successful Life

"STOP TO LOOK FEAR IN THE FACE" IS AN EXAMPLE OF

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"Stop to look fear in the face" is figurative language because...

• The face of fear is too much to handle

• You shouldn't stop if you are scared.

• Fear is an emotion and doesn't have a face

Multiple Choice

"With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."

-- Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream

The underlined parts are examples of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"beautiful symphony of brotherhood." Compares...

• Music to a choir

• Family to brothers

• Family to a piece of music

Multiple Choice

"Rain, somebody said, is like confetti from heaven. So even the heavens are celebrating this morning, joining the rest of us at this wonderful commencement ceremony."

-- USSC Justice John Roberts, Cardigan Commencement Address

The underlined part is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Multiple Choice

...:Rain, somebody said, is like confetti from heaven." means?????

• Rain is wet

• God is sprinkling confetti

• Rain is joyful