Figurative Language in Speeches

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.”

• allusion

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

...even the state of Mississippi, a State Sweltering with the heat of injustice…

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• parallelsim

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I have a dream.......I have a dream.......I have a dream.........

• simile

• metaphor

• repetition

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope

• simile

• repetition

• alliteration

• rhyme

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

 to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,

• simile

• alliteration

• parallelism

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: “My country, ‘tis of thee sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride (Yeah), from every mountainside, let freedom ring!”

• simile

• allusion

• personification

• rhyme

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The end of slavery was a joyous daybreak

• simile

• metaphor

• repetition

• parallelism

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D