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IMAGERY USED
IN LETTER FROM
BIRMINGHAM
JAIL
Victor Martin
Figurative Language
Figurative Language is used by writers to
Imagery
Imagery refers to adjectives that have been
High Imagery
High imagery is usually referred to hills, the
Low Imagery
Low imagery usually relates to things
High/Low Imagery
Examples
The high and low imagery in Kings Letter From Birmingham Jail
understanding
Paragraph 14: abyss of despair
Paragraph 24: like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is
covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural
medicines of air and light . . .
Paragraph 27: the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of
human dignity
Paragraph 43: the dark mountain of disappointment
Paragraph 47: those great wells of democracy
Paragraph 50: dark clouds of racial prejudice . . . deep fog . . .
radiant stars
Example 1 Paragraph
38
Martin Luther King Jr. Says
Where were they when Governor Wallace
Explanation
King questions his audience about why
Analytical Conclusion
King want his audience to feel the need of
Example 2 Paragraph
16
Martin Luther King Jr. Says
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas:
Explanation
King is explaining that the law is focused
Analytical Conclusion
Dr. Kings argument empowers the individual
Example 3 Paragraph
27
Martin Luther King Jr. Says
Now is the time to make real the promise of
Explanation
King wants the black people to relieve
Analytical Conclusion
Kings metaphors make the problem simplistic
Example 4 Paragraph
50
Martin Luther King Jr. Says
"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of
Explanation
King is concluding to his audience that
Analytical Conclusion
Kings hope for the future resembles radiant
Example 5 Paragraph
10
Martin Luther King Jr. Says
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to
Explanation
He implies that proceeding without tension is
Analytical Conclusion
The statement of dark depths of prejudicemajestic
In Conclusion. . .
Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetorical strategy of high and low