Rhetorical Devices

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

• repetition

• allusion

• metaphor

• parallelism

“....the bank of justice is bankrupt….so we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the notes of freedom and the security of justice.”

• repetition

• metaphor

• simile

• more than one of these

“With this faith, we will be able to hew out a mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together….”

• metaphors

• parallelism

• similies

• more than one of these

“This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering justice.”

• metaphor

• simile

• Allusion

• More than one of these

“And this will be the day--this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: “My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing…”

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• More than one of these

“Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia...Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee...Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi..”

• Metaphors

• Allusions

• Similes

• None of these

“...have come here today , have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.”

• Metaphors

• Parallelism

• Allusions

• More than one of these

"Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. "

• Metaphors

• Allusions

• Parallelism

• More than one of these

“...the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.”

• similes

• repetitions

• allusions

• none of these

“No no, we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

• similes

• metaphors

• allusion

• More than one of these