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Analyzing the Effect of Emotional Connotations
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Highlight one set of words that have opposite emotional
connotations.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,
the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave
owners will be able to sit down together at the table of
brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering
with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an
oasis of freedom and justice.
-"I Have a Dream,"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Complete the statements below.
In this passage, the word
v" has the
emotional connotations of misery and discomfort.
In this passage, the word " v" has the
emotional connotations of serenity and safety.
By using these two words with opposite emotional
connotations, King emphasizes the contrast between
the
and the