Martin Luther
King,
I Have a Dream
Speech delivered to the March on Washington, April 19, 1963.
Paraphrase: Gettysburg Address |
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Synonymous parallel; also chiasmus in second members |
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Anaphora in italicized phrase; "Corners of American society" a rhetorically inactive metaphor |
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Beginning of extended metaphor or allegory |
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"architects of our republic" an inactive metaphor |
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"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") |
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Anadiplosis (Repetition of the last word of one line or passage to begin the next); End of extended metaphor or allegory |
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"The fierce urgency of now" Anthimeria (substitution of one part of speech for another) |
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Anaphora; exergasia ("repeating the same thought in many figures") |
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Paraphrase: Shakespeare, Richard the Third, "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York"; Exergasia continued. |
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Antithesis |
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Amplification by synonym; possibly hendiadys (conveying one meaning with two nouns linked by conjuction instead of a noun and an adjective) |
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Tacit synecdoche (accompanying image is of one person) |
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Syncrisis ("comparison and contrast in parallel clauses") |
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Alliteration |
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"marvelous new militancy" Alliteration; "destiny/freedom" clause Synonymous parallel and/or isocolon ("phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure") |
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Epiphonema ("striking epigram used for summary")
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Anadiplosis with preceding clause |
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Anadiplosis. Also prolepsis (forestalling objections) |
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Isocolon, internal rhyme or assonance |
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Isocolon |
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Homoioteleuton (similar ending) |
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String of anaphora ending with anadiplosis. Internal quote: Amos 5:24 |
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Alliteration; hendiadys |
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Internal assonance (battered / staggered) |
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Internal quote: Declaration of Independence |
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"red hills of Georgia" Synecdoche; Isocolon |
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Chiasmus (injustice-oppression C freedom-justice) |
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Antithesis enhanced by alliteration |
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Refrain |
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Internal quote: Isa 40:4–5 |
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Beginning of inclusio; (see at 20.10 below); Direct quote |
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Exergasia, syncrisis |
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String of synecdoches; "curvaceous slopes of California is also a metonym" |
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End of inclusio ("from every mountain side," see at 20.1) |