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I have a dream修辞手法分析 演讲全文：I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.(allusion 引用了一个历史典故—林肯签署《解放黑人奴隶宣言》) This momentous decree（metonymy 用此指代上文宣言） came as a great beacon light of hope （simile 用把灯塔比作希望）to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. （metaphor把火焰比作不公）It came as a joyous daybreak （transferred epithet，joyous实际修饰it）to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. （periodic sentence 把重点放在最后）One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.（metaphor把手铐比作种族隔离，把链条比作种族歧视） One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island （transferred epithet， 用lonely修饰island）of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.（oxymoron，poverty和prosperity为矛盾修饰） One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.（repetition and parallelism 重复使用one hundred years later） In a sense weve come to our nations capital to cash a check. （metonymy，用cash a check指代此行目的）When the architects（metonymy，把建筑师比作美国创始人） of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. 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. （allusion 用典，引用美国《独立宣言》）It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead o