The direct meaning of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; explicit or primary meaning.

Words or statements that are fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated

Statements or words that are NOT plainly expressed but rather suggested

The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one considered to be offensive, harsh, or blunt

An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

"This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent"

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

"a state sweltering with the heat of injustice"

_________ is the technique or art of using language effectively in order to persuade or influence

"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?'"

We will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."

"This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'"

"...our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: 'For Whites Only.'"

"...to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. Now is the time to make ... Now is the time to rise ... Now is the time to lift ... Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." (Check all correct answers)

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. (Select all correct answers)

"Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow‐capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi." (select all correct answers)