Read the passage below from Dr. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Determine which type of figurative language is being used.
“Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”
1 Point
A.
Allusion
B.
Tone
C.
Symbolism