Therefore, after analyzing the above works, one can infer that the subject matter of the deprivation of racial justice is explicated with the aide of rhetorical devices such as allusion and parallelism. ... The selections "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall shared the properties of social expressions portrayed with literary devices that addressed the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. ... With every example of subordinate clause that described injustice that King exposed in his letter, he began with the ph...

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In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... He then goes on with more structural devices early on in the writing using repetition. ... He uses lots of references to concrete, specific examples such as slaves making their master's waste into a tasty meal (368) or creating the roots of so much popular music today in the plantation fields (368) or even introducing " bass to 20th-century American culture" (369). ... Donnell does an excellent job of not only ...

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The different rhetorical devices, allusions to historic documents, and metaphors seemed to have brought about the emotions that King was trying to arouse in his listeners. ... This entire last paragraph of King's speech is an example of parallelism. ... Another literary device that also has a lot of influence is his use of metaphors. ... All of the examples of metaphors were comparing how the black people were discriminated against and being on the receiving end of injustices which were inflicted by the white man. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

An excellent example of this writing style is found on pg. 87 when Janie says "Ah'm gone tuh de house. ... By using characterization, theme, diction and other literary devices, Ellison and Hurston created two enduring novels about life's struggles and rewards that will be read for many centuries to come....

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Martin Luther King delivers the main idea in his speech at the very end. King says, "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and ...

• Word Count: 788
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• Grade Level: High School