The line from Letter from

Birmingham Jail

is an example of

That means

(Which type of
figurative language
such as metaphor,
simile, personification,
symbol, or allusion?)
Example:
This movement is nourished by the
contemporary frustration over the
continued existence of racial
discrimination.

is an example of
Personification

1. and see the tears welling up Is an example of

symbolism
in her little eyes when she is
told that Funtown is closed to
colored children, and see the
depressing clouds of inferiority
begin to form in her little
mental sky

2. There comes a time when the

cup of endurance runs over, and
men are no longer willing to be
plunged into an abyss of
injustice where they experience
the bleakness of corroding
despair.

3. To a degree academic freedom

is a reality today
because Socrates practiced civil
disobedience.

4. Like a boil that can never be

cured as long as it is covered up
but must be opened with all its
pus-flowing ugliness to the
natural medicines of air and
light, injustice must likewise be
exposed, with all of the tension
its exposing creates, to the light
of human conscience and the air
of national opinion before it can

and creates a
____________ tone
and a
____________
Mood.

that means the

movement grows
because of the
peoples frustration
with racial
discrimination

And creates a
Factual tone and an
Urgent mood.

That means the

And creates a
oppression of colored
people were met by
devastating dispiriting
disappointment and
the realization of being
less of a human due to
ethnicity.
_______________
tone
Urgent mood

Socrates disobeyed _______________

laws that were not fair, tone
which made it so
students today can
Thought-provoking
think freely (and
mood
possibly differently
than their teachers).

be cured.

5. In those days the Church was

not merely a thermometer that
recorded the ideas and
principles of popular opinion; it
was a thermostat that
transformed the mores of
society.

6. Let us all hope the dark clouds

of racial prejudice will soon
pass away and the deep fog of
misunderstanding will be lifted
from our fear-drenched
communities

7. Let us all hope the dark clouds

of racial prejudice will soon
pass away and the deep fog of
misunderstanding will be lifted
from our fear-drenched
communities

Metaphor

The church did not just

reflect what was
happening in society; it
actually had the ability
to change what was
happening in society.
Optimistic tone
____________
mood