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Rhetorical Devices and MLK Review

Authored by Victoria Orepitan

English

9th - 12th Grade

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Rhetorical Devices and MLK Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which metaphor illustrates the broken promises to “her citizens of color”

a check has come back marked "insufficient funds"
a dark well with a bottomless bucket tied to a frayed rope
crossroads in a dark forest
 recurrent nightmare

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which allusion used to introduce the historical significance of the speech that also adds credibility to his speech? 

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
"a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today"
"sit down together at the table of brotherhood"
"the tranquilizing drug of gradualism"

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"...and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'"  What type of figurative language is stated here?

metaphor
simile
allusion
parallelism

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When King says "And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom," he means that..

they cannot removed from the Lincoln Memorial and are stuck there.
whites present at the demonstration understand that freedom cannot be separated between races.
Americans cannot get out of freedom
the demonstrators have had a realization about the meaning of freedom

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty"  is an effective metaphor because

it makes people think of being on an island
it emphasizes the black Americans are isolated and have not been made available to to opportunities for prosperity
it shows how poverty can cause problems
it shows how America has included all people in its prosperity

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

King mentions the writers of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence because they

faced poverty and discrimination.

issued promissory notes to United States banks.

believed in equality of rights for all.

eliminated slavery.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

King uses the metaphor_______________ to say that it is important that we take action now as it has been too long for change to come. 

"quicksands of racial injustice"
"lonely island of poverty"
"tranquilizing drug of gradualism"
"palace of justice"

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