Speeches Quiz

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."​ is an example of what?

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice." is an example of what?

• Simile

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Anaphora

"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Diction

"Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented." What device is being used?

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Imagery

• Euphemism

"It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces..." is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Euphemism

• Allusion

"...but let us judge not, that we be not judged." is an example of what literary device?

• Anaphora

• Allusion

• Euphemism

• Dialect

"But what's all this here talking about?" is an example of what?

• Euphemism

• Anaphora

• Dialect

• Imagery

What is Truth's tone in the following lines: "Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from?"

• Inquisitive

• Assertive

• Apologetic

• Hopeful

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!" is an example of what?

• Imagery

• Euphemism

• Allusion

• Anaphora

"If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Anaphora