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Choose the answer.

Read the passage:

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

Identify the allusion in the passage. Then explain the effect of that allusion.

Question 3 options:

Dr. King alludes to the Founding Fathers and their signing of America's foundational documents; the effect is that the audience realizes Dr. King is an educated man who is worthy of respect.


Dr. King alludes to Lincoln's freeing of the slaves; the effect is that the audience realizes that America has not achieved its original promise of equality.


Dr. King alludes to the Founding Fathers and their signing of America's foundational documents; the reader understands that Dr. King considers himself an important part of America's history.


Dr. King alludes to Lincoln's freeing of the slaves; the effect is that the reader understands that Dr. King feels joy that America is a land of equal opportunity.

Answer 1

D)King is trying to argue that great men in history – like Jefferson and Lincoln – would support the civil rights movement.

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Answer 2

I'd say the answer is the final one, or D. The story states the commendations that Dr. King gave Lincoln, the one who made the Emancipation Proclaimation and freed hundreds of thousands of slaves, and the joy and happiness he feels knowing that slavery was abolished.