Metaphors In Martin Luther King's Speech
II. Topic Sentence: Martin Luther King used Metaphors through all throughout his speech for one reason. To make his audience get an idea of how something that is beyond their power can be compared to something that is relatable.
A. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: For example, in the text King compares how injustice to a boil. He says “Like a boil, that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light,”. And he continues on talking about how just like a boil “injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience.”
B. Explanation: What he is doing by creating this relation between …show more content…
Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: In another part of the letter he talks about, how the power of churches has changed overtime. He says, “There was a time when the Church was very powerful ... In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. ”
D. Explanation: What King means by this, is that in previous centuries, Churches had the most power. They were able to make large political, economical, decisions even for the king. However, as time passed on churches lose power and have simply become a place where people bring all their troubles where they expect to be fixed. And the Churches are forced to adapt to the environment they are in.
III. Topic Sentence: Along with metaphors, king used Allusions in his writing. Although there isn’t as many as metaphors they are harder to find. He used these Allusions to make people think about the past and how people before them responded.
A. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: On of the major examples of people that he indirectly mentions is, HItler. He talks about how “everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."”. Now this lets whoever is reading the letter think about the past and question things that other
A. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: For example, in the text King compares how injustice to a boil. He says “Like a boil, that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light,”. And he continues on talking about how just like a boil “injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience.”
B. Explanation: What he is doing by creating this relation between …show more content…
Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: In another part of the letter he talks about, how the power of churches has changed overtime. He says, “There was a time when the Church was very powerful ... In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. ”
D. Explanation: What King means by this, is that in previous centuries, Churches had the most power. They were able to make large political, economical, decisions even for the king. However, as time passed on churches lose power and have simply become a place where people bring all their troubles where they expect to be fixed. And the Churches are forced to adapt to the environment they are in.
III. Topic Sentence: Along with metaphors, king used Allusions in his writing. Although there isn’t as many as metaphors they are harder to find. He used these Allusions to make people think about the past and how people before them responded.
A. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: On of the major examples of people that he indirectly mentions is, HItler. He talks about how “everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."”. Now this lets whoever is reading the letter think about the past and question things that other