Figurative Language Quizziz 1/17/24

"The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges."

Select which form of figurative language is being used below!

• Parallelism

• Similie

• Personification

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Personification

...and those who hope that the Negro needed to blow of steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• Idiom

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies heavy with the fatigue of travel cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and hotels of the cities.

• Alliteration

• Similie

• Synecdoche

• Parallelism

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together to go to jail together to stand up for freedom together

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Let Freedom Ring...Let Freedom Ring

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Anaphora

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

• Similie

• Alliteration

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, "my country 'tis of these sweet land of liberty of thee I sing." (Hint the underlined is a patriotic song verse not written in the speech.)

• Allusion

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Match the following

• Idiom

• 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 injustice

• Metaphor

• In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check

• Alliteration

• And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual

quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality