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MLK Historical Context

MLK Historical Context. T ranscendentalism. More Transcendentalism. MLK Rhetoric. Word of the Day. SAT Preparation. MLK Historical Context. More Transcendentalism. MLK Rhetoric. Word of the Day. SAT Preparation. Transcendentalism. $100. $100. $100. $100. $100. $100. $200. $200.

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MLK Historical Context

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  1. MLK Historical Context

  2. Transcendentalism

  3. More Transcendentalism

  4. MLK Rhetoric

  5. Word of the Day

  6. SAT Preparation

  7. MLK Historical Context More Transcendentalism MLK Rhetoric Word of the Day SAT Preparation Transcendentalism $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

  8. 1 - 100 King was the leader of this group.

  9. 1 - 100 What is the SCLC? $100

  10. The C in Project-C stood for this.

  11. 1 - 100 What is confrontation? $200

  12. The planning committee planned to act during this busy shopping season.

  13. 1 - 100 What is Easter? $300

  14. This famous civil rights activist and Presidential cabinet member called Project C “ill-timed.”

  15. 1 - 100 Who is Robert F. Kennedy? $400

  16. King was arrested on this Catholic holy day.

  17. 1 - 100 What is Good Friday? $500

  18. In one of his essays, Emerson cites famous thinkers like Jesus and Martin Luther, thereby employing this Greek rhetorical device. 1 - 100

  19. 1 - 100 What is ethos? $100

  20. When Whitman repeats the phrase “When I” to begin successive clauses, he is employing this literary device.

  21. 1 - 100 What is anaphora? $200

  22. When Thoreau describes the standing army as a “standing arm” of the government, he is employing this literary device.

  23. 1 - 100 What is metaphor? $300

  24. Transcendentalism was popular during this century.

  25. 1 - 100 What is the 19th century (or the 1800s)? $400

  26. Transcendentalism is an American outgrowth of this European movement that you learned about last year.

  27. 1 - 100 What is Romanticism? $500

  28. Henry David Thoreau built his famous cabin in this Massachusetts town. 1 - 100

  29. 1 - 100 What is Concord? $100

  30. Walt Whitman’s life was spent composing one series of poems, with this title.

  31. 1 - 100 What is Leaves of Grass? $200

  32. Ralph Waldo Emerson celebrated the common man with essays like this one, one of his most famous works.

  33. 1 - 100 What is “Self-Reliance”? $300

  34. This Whitman poem describes an epiphany a young man has after hearing a college lecture.

  35. What is “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer? 1 - 100 $400

  36. Henry David Thoreau refused a diploma from this university.

  37. 1 - 100 What is Harvard? $500

  38. When King asks, “Why direct action? Why sit-ins?” he is employing this rhetorical device (besides anaphora). 1 - 100

  39. 1 - 100 What is rhetorical question? $100

  40. When King utilizes logic to explain that it was “illegal” to aid and comfort Jews in Hitler’s Germany, he is employing this rhetorical device.

  41. 1 - 100 What is logos? $200

  42. When King talks about the sadness he felt when he couldn’t take his daughter to Funtown, he is employing this rhetorical device.

  43. 1 - 100 What is pathos? $300

  44. When King references Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by using the phrase “Five score,” he is employing this rhetorical device.

  45. 1 - 100 What is allusion? $400

  46. When King mentions “a promissory note,” “a bad check,” and “the bank of justice,” he is establishing this, a recurrent metaphor.

  47. 1 - 100 What is a motif? $500

  48. 1 - 100 My mom once told me I had a “unique” face – a nice way of saying I was ugly.

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