Like protest songs, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” includes many examples of figurative language meant to persuade people to take action. In each line, an instance of figurative language is already identified for you. Use what you learned in the lesson to identify the type of figurative language, explain what the figurative language means, and explain the tone and mood of the line from the letter.
Some parts of the chart are already completed for you.

The line … from “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an example of …

(Which type of figurative languages such as metaphor, simile, personification, symbol, or allusion?)

that means… and creates a tone and a mood.

Example:

This movement is nourished by the contemporary frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination.

Personification

The movement grows because of the people’s frustration with racial discrimination.

Factual tone

Urgent mood

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