What literary device does King use to convey his point in this excerpt? a simile comparing his dream to Jefferson's a metaphor for the liberties and rights that African Americans are enjoying an allusion to the Declaration of Independence to underscore how its principles have not yet been applied to African Americans hyperbole for the unattainability of Jefferson's ideals in the African American community

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demons that is dreaming which of these poetic devices is used here?

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

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