Answer the following questions.

1.A number of rhetorical devices are used in Paragraph 25. Point out three devices and give examples.

Answer:

Metaphor: 1) have a high blood pressure of creeds (be emotional and enthusiastic in expressing their beliefs) and an anemia of deeds (inactive in taking actions);

2) the battering rams of the forces of justice (the forces of justice are like the battering rams that can be used to knock down the walls that separate people)

Transferred epithet: tragic walls (The adjective “tragic” should rightfully go with separation, as the separation is tragic)

Synecdoche: city hall, using part (a building) to refer to the whole (the municipal government) Parallel structure: There are 11 sentences beginning with “let us be dissatisfied until” and two short sentences of “let us be dissatisfied”.

Antithesis:

outer city of wealth and comfort vs. inner city of poverty and despair;

dark yesterdays vs. bright tomorrows;

on the basis of the content of their character vs.

on the basis of the color of their skin

Simile: justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

biblical allusion: when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together

every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid

Anaphora: the rhetorical device of repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences

2.What role does Paragraph 26 play?

Answer: Para. 26 plays the role of a transitional paragraph. As a follow-up of the previous paragraph about the future expectation and direction, the speaker points out that there may be unavoidable set-backs and frustrations in their struggle against discrimination and persecution. Nevertheless, this arouses even firmer determination and more optimistic revolutionary spirit of the speaker and so leads to the concluding remark of “We shall overcome”.