2.6 Historical Speeches - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Metaphors allow you to associate your speech concepts with concrete images and emotions.

• True

• False

Repeating key ideas or theme words is not an example of repetition.

• True

• False

What is being compared in the following metaphor?

"rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice"

• a dark and desolate valley and a sunlit path

• segregation and racial justice

• none of these items are being compared

In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?

• 1968

• 1963

• 1964

• 1957

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered before a crowd of around 250,000 people at the 1963 March on Washington.

• True

• False

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who encouraged peaceful protest.

• True

• False

Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?

• Memphis, Tennessee

• Washington, D.C.

• Birmingham, Alabama

• Montgomery, Alabama

In 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a group focused and dedicated to equal rights for African Americans.

• True

• False

When using anaphora, the repeating of words must be at the beginning of each sentence, otherwise it's just repetition.

• True

• False

The "I have a dream" clause that is repeated at the beginning of eight sentences in Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech is an example of:

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Anaphora