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 ...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. ... However, they are not based entirely on fact, and as such, becoming a literary genre. ... The autobiographer creates a story based on facts, trough aesthetic devices, striving to achieve originality. ... The literary characteristics of his autobiography are varied. ... He proved a very good command of English, influenced by literary English texts. ...

• Word Count: 900
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1011
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School