Question 142 • 26-27 RPA - US History 1 CR
King opens by echoing Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address with “five score years ago,” and refers to the Emancipation Proclamation as a “beacon light of hope.” He also alludes to the Constitution as a promise of equality and uses biblical language and imagery throughout the speech. The Washington Monument is part of the setting, but it is not one of the speech’s main allusions; John F. Kennedy is not alluded to.
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