Literary Devices in the “I Have a Dream” Speech
Name: ____________________________ Period: ________
Directions: ​Review Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Find specific examples
of each of the devices below and list them on the chart. Be sure to include the line number next
to your examples.
Repetition
Parallelism
Extended Metaphor
Uses the same word or words more than
once for emphasis.
Uses similar grammatical constructions to
express ideas that are related to or equal in
importance. It often creates a rhyme.
Makes a comparison between two unlike
things that continues at some length
throughout the text.