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What literary device does King use to convey his point in this excerpt? a simile comparing his dream to Jefferson's a metaphor for the liberties and rights that African Americans are enjoying an allusion to the Declaration of Independence to underscore how its principles have not yet been applied to African Americans hyperbole for the unattainability of Jefferson's ideals in the African American community

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What literary device does King use to convey his point in this excerpt?

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an allusion to the Declaration of Independence to underscore how its principles have not yet been applied to African Americans.
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