Rhetorical Devices & "I Have a Dream"

This rhetorical device does not require an answer.

• allusion

• simile

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

Allusion

• A list of successive words or phrases with the same/similar grammatical structure.

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• A short reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.

• A comparison of two unlike things by speaking about one in terms of the other.

Metaphor

• A list of successive words or phrases with the same/similar grammatical structure.

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• A short reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.

• A comparison of two unlike things by speaking about one in terms of the other.

Parallelism

• A list of successive words or phrases with the same/similar grammatical structure.

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• A short reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.

• A comparison of two unlike things by speaking about one in terms of the other.

Simile

• A list of successive words or phrases with the same/similar grammatical structure.

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• A short reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.

• A comparison of two unlike things by speaking about one in terms of the other.

The intentional reuse of a sound, word, phrase or sentence in order to create an effect.

• Parallelism

• Rhetorical device

• Rhetorical question

• Repetition

Identify the rhetorical device:

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

• metaphor

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• allusion

Identify the rhetorical device:

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• repeition

Identify the rhetorical device:

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

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• repetition

Identify the rhetorical device:

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

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• allusion

• metaphor