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How Does Martin Luther King Use Figurative Language

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Oxendine, Rion Mr. Shipp English 1, Block 3 5-24-23 Martin Luther King Figurative Language of Reasoning Martin Luther King Jr. “ I Have a Dream'' speech influenced a lot of people during the Civil Rights Movement. In his “I Have a Dream” speech he used a lot of literary devices such as imagery: the use of literal and figurative language to add symbolism and enable the reader to imagine the world of the piece in literature, a metaphor:a comparison in which one thing is said to be another. Last but not least, anaphora: when a word is repeated several times. King used figurative language to persuade the audience and to draw bigger attention to him without drawing violence near. Dr.Martin Luther King used a lot of imagery in his speech. For example
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