I Have a Dream

Figurative language

• This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope...
• the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation
• Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation.

Idioms

• ...those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam...
• We cannot turn back.
• Let us not wallow in the valley of despair...
• the rough places will be made plain and the crooked places will be made straight

Personification

• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up...
• America has given the Negro people a bad check...
• I have a dream that Mississippi can be changed for the better

Metaphors/Similes

• "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
• You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
• This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope...

My dream is to one day live in a world where people can understand one another and bring forth peace to a new world of alliance, love, and friendship.