Question

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech repeats the phrase, "I have a dream..." and this is an example of which language device?

a. Simile
b. Alliteration
c. Parallelism
d. Metaphor

Answer 1

Parallelism or Repetition

Answer 2

Answer: Option (C)

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, in this particular case the speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is an example of parallelism, i.e. also referred to as the parallel construction. In this case the parallelism represents and denotes the balance attained in between sentences which tends to be of the similar phrases that further have similar grammatical structure.