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Writing Prompt:
What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail," write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text?
I. Hook: “Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious (well-known) reality. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than any city in this nation. These are the hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts.” Unfortunately, he was right. Those were “hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts” at that time.
A. Bridge: During the time he wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” the African-American Civil Rights Movement was happening. People were protesting to get equal rights for “colored people”, to outlaw racial injustice in the USA and Martin Luther King Jr. was a big part of it. He was one of the leaders of this movement; this letter that he wrote was from jail because he was given a penalty for parading without a permit.
B. Thesis: Martin Luther King Jr. uses analogies and metaphors in his letter to appeal to the audience from an emotional angle and he uses figurative language and an urgent tone to make his text relatable and important.
II. Topic Sentence: Martin Luther King Jr. used analogies and metaphors in his letter to make his letter more real and relatable.
A. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: In one of his paragraphs, Martin King Luther Jr. compares racial injustice to a boil: “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, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”
B. Explanation:
Writing Prompt:
What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail," write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text?
I. Hook: “Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious (well-known) reality. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than any city in this nation. These are the hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts.” Unfortunately, he was right. Those were “hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts” at that time.
A. Bridge: During the time he wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” the African-American Civil Rights Movement was happening. People were protesting to get equal rights for “colored people”, to outlaw racial injustice in the USA and Martin Luther King Jr. was a big part of it. He was one of the leaders of this movement; this letter that he wrote was from jail because he was given a penalty for parading without a permit.
B. Thesis: Martin Luther King Jr. uses analogies and metaphors in his letter to appeal to the audience from an emotional angle and he uses figurative language and an urgent tone to make his text relatable and important.
II. Topic Sentence: Martin Luther King Jr. used analogies and metaphors in his letter to make his letter more real and relatable.
A. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: In one of his paragraphs, Martin King Luther Jr. compares racial injustice to a boil: “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, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”
B. Explanation: