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1. What does King hope to evoke in his audience by mentioning various historical documents (the Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution)?
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1.He wants to show that black people have the right to be free and by listing these historical items he’s giving examples.
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2. King makes it a point to address issues that are of particular interest to white listeners and readers. What might have been his reasons for doing this?
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2. He wants to include white people to show that he wants everybody to get along
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3. Why might King have decided to quote all of the first seven lines of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”? Why did he stop at “Of thee I sing”?
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3. Because they all represent something he wants to accomplish
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4. What effect does King create when he makes references to specific places, events, and public figures?
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4. He creates the fact that these things are real and have happened
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5. King makes references to the Bible and to the faith that has sustained him throughout his struggle for civil rights. What effect is created with such references?
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5.That he is Christian and wants God to do the punishing
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6. King’s speech is especially moving because he succeeds in creating emphasis through parallelism. Find a few examples of this technique citing from teh text
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6. Martin Luther King Jr. Uses parallelism examples by saying ‘I Have A Dream’
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7. What does king mean when he says, “America has given the Negro people a bad check” (Paragraph 4)? Identify other metaphors that he uses and explain why they are effective.
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7. King is saying that because he was saying the bank of justice is bankrupt.
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8. Why does King use the term marvelous to describe the “new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community” (Paragraph 6)?
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8. Because he was saying not all white people are corrupt.
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9. How would you describe King’s tone? Controlled? Angry? Impassioned?
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9. Kings tone in my opinion was hopeful because he was hoping for a change
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