Martin Luther King,
I Have a Dream

Speech delivered to the March on Washington, April 19, 1963.

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2.1

Paraphrase: Gettysburg Address

2.2–3

Synonymous parallel; also chiasmus in second members

3.

Anaphora in italicized phrase; "Corners of American society" a rhetorically inactive metaphor

4.2

Beginning of extended metaphor or allegory

4.3

"architects of our republic" an inactive metaphor

4.4

"Black men as well as white men": a. amplification by division; b. antistrophe ("repetition of a word or phrase in a second context in the same position it held in an earlier and similar context"). "Unalienable rights…" internal quote: Declaration of Independence. Also apomnemonysis ("quotation of an approved authority from memory")

5.4

Anadiplosis (Repetition of the last word of one line or passage to begin the next); End of extended metaphor or allegory

6.1

"The fierce urgency of now" Anthimeria (substitution of one part of speech for another)

6.3

Anaphora; exergasia ("repeating the same thought in many figures")

6.5

Paraphrase: Shakespeare, Richard the Third, "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York"; Exergasia continued.

7.1

Antithesis

8.1

Amplification by synonym; possibly hendiadys (conveying one meaning with two nouns linked by conjuction instead of a noun and an adjective)

9.1

Tacit synecdoche (accompanying image is of one person)

9.2

Syncrisis ("comparison and contrast in parallel clauses")

10.2

Alliteration

11.1

"marvelous new militancy" Alliteration; "destiny/freedom" clause Synonymous parallel and/or isocolon ("phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure")

11.3

Epiphonema ("striking epigram used for summary")

 

12.1

Anadiplosis with preceding clause

12.3-4

Anadiplosis. Also prolepsis (forestalling objections)

13.1

Isocolon, internal rhyme or assonance

14.1

Isocolon

14.2

Homoioteleuton (similar ending)

14.3

String of anaphora ending with anadiplosis. Internal quote: Amos 5:24

15.1

Alliteration; hendiadys

15.3

Internal assonance (battered / staggered)

18.1

Internal quote: Declaration of Independence

18.2

"red hills of Georgia" Synecdoche; Isocolon

18.3

Chiasmus (injustice-oppression C freedom-justice)

18.4

Antithesis enhanced by alliteration

18.5

Refrain

18.8

Internal quote: Isa 40:4–5

20.1

Beginning of inclusio; (see at 20.10 below); Direct quote

20.2-10

Exergasia, syncrisis

20.2-6

String of synecdoches; "curvaceous slopes of California is also a metonym"

20.10

End of inclusio ("from every mountain side," see at 20.1)