"I Have A Dream Speech" Kahoot Review
Which of the following is NOT an example of antithesis? OPTIONS: "Those who hope [we] needed to blow off steam" are wrong "came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night" "[hot] summer...[won't] pass until... invigorating [fall]" "rise from...dark...valley...to...sunlit...path of...justice"
"Those who hope [we] needed to blow off steam" are wrong
Sensory details: "This sweltering summer...an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
- Appeals to the sense of touch by describing the oppressive heat - Appeals to sight by describing equality as a bright day
RD? ("Let freedom ring...Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill...")
- Sense of sound by using the word ring - Diction (mole emphasizes how widespread freedom will be) - Repetition of "let freedom ring
Oasis
A fertile spot in a desert where water is found.
Decree
An official order issued by a legal authority.
RD? "battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality"
Analogy (stormy winds = persecution & brutality)
Hew
Chop or cut (something, especially wood) with an ax, pick, or other tool.
"We must not allow our creative protest to _____________ into physical violence" (8).
Degenerate
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and __________ valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice" (6).
Desolate
Which RD? "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst...by drinking from the cup of bitterness."
Diction
RD? "We [can't] be satisfied as long as our children' see signs stating: "For Whites Only."
Emotional Appeal
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be _________, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight . . ." (24).
Exalted
"We have also come to this ___________ spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now" (6).
Hallowed
"And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every ___________ . . ." (39).
Hamlet
Persecution
Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
Explain parallel structure: "we will be able to work together, to pray together, etc."
IPs modifying the adjective able
"One hundred years later, the Negro is still _____________ in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land" (3).
Languished
"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the ___________ of segregation and the chains of discrimination" (3).
Manacles
Unalienable
Not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away ordenied; inalienable
Momentous
Of a decision, event, or change) of great importance or significance, especially in its bearing on the future.
Explain the extended metaphor: "we've come to...cash a check...America has give...a bad check"
Promise of equality compared to promise of $ in a bad check
"Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is _____________" (14).
Redemptive
RD? "We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, etc."
Repetition of IP emphasizes what oppressed can do with faith
Which is NOT (a rhetorical device that was demonstrated) "One hundred years later, [blacks are] crippled by the manacles of segregation." Choices: Analogy Emotional Appeal Simile Repetition
SIMILE
What does "a vast ocean of material prosperity" (3) represent?
The economic comfort experienced by many whites
PS emphasis ("no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take...drug of gradualism")
The urgency/need to act now to take a stand for racial injustices; no time to wait
Defaulted
To fail to fulfill an obligation, especially to repay a loan or to appear in a court of law.
Wallow
To live or indulge oneself to an immoderate degree (in a specified thing, condition, etc.)
Staggered
To walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.
"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and __________" (14).
Tribulations
