Question

read each quotation from the text. then identify the type of device used by matching from the options on your right.
there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, \when will you be satisfied?\
rhetorical question
let freedom ring...let freedom ring...let freedom ring
alliteration
from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice
metaphor
business as usual
allusion
this sweltering summer
antithesis
five score years ago, a great american...signed the emancipation proclamation
idiom
metaphor
alliteration
i have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low.
justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
irony
allusion
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.\
antithesis
rhetorical question
simile
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
previous

Explanation:

1. "When will you be satisfied?" is a rhetorical question as it is not meant to be answered but to make a point.
2. "Let freedom ring...Let freedom ring...Let freedom ring" is repetition for emphasis, not alliteration (alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds).
3. "from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice" uses a metaphor comparing segregation to a dark valley and racial - justice to a sunlit path.
4. "business as usual" is an allusion, referring to a common - known concept or situation without explicitly stating it.
5. "This sweltering summer" has no clear figure of speech among the given options.
6. "Five score years ago, a great American...signed the Emancipation Proclamation" is an allusion to the historical event of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
7. "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low" has no clear figure of speech among the given options.
8. "Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream" is a simile as it uses "like" to compare justice to waters and righteousness to a stream.
9. "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'" has no clear figure of speech among the given options.

Answer:

1. rhetorical question
2. repetition (not in given options, closest would be none of the above)
3. metaphor
4. allusion
5. none of the above
6. allusion
7. none of the above
8. simile
9. none of the above