USA HISTORY

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline” contains an example of

(A) ** Assonance

(B) Repetition

(C) Parallelism

(D) Alliteration with Immediate Juxtaposition

Concept note-1: -For example, when King says, “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline” (3), he uses assonance, and when he says, “We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

Concept note-2: -We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. King’s use of repetition in the excerpt stresses his.

Concept note-3: -He uses assonance in his address to the National Press Club in 1962: “The law may not change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.” Alliteration and assonance are part of the reason that nonprofit taglines like “Give a hoot. Don’t pollute.” and American Heart Association’s “Learn and Live.” stay in our brains.

Concept note-4: -In “I Have a Dream”, Martin Luther King Jr. extensively uses repetitions, metaphors, and allusions. Other rhetorical devices that you should note are antithesis, direct address, and enumeration. Rhetorical devices are language tools used to make speakers’ arguments both appealing and memorable.