3.02 king’s words start a fire chart the line … from “letter from birmingham jail” is an example of … (which type of figurative language such as metaphor, simile, personification, symbol, or allusion? ) that means… and creates a tone and a mood. example: this movement is nourished by the contemporary frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination. personification the movement grows because of the people’s frustration with racial discrimination. factual tone urgent mood …and see the tears welling up 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… there comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to