Metaphors In The Life Of Martin Luther King Jr.

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It is amazing to think about how one man Martin Luther King Jr. Could change

people thought about the Negros. Martin was a very intelligent man. He used a myriad

of figurative language that makes him sound even smarter. Martin used many

anaphora's, personification, and allusions.

An anaphora is using the same part of a sentence in other sentences

afterwards. One anaphora that sticks out to me is when he says "but 100 years later" he

uses that to tell us that the Negros are still being discriminated and treated unfairly.

Another one that he used is "free at last". He would use to say that the are able to

worship and practice there own religion that they want to. He would say this because

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