Figurative Language, Devices, Rhetoric, and Appeals

Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

• Anaphora

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Anaphora

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

How dare you!

• Anaphora

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

This nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

• Anaphora

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5