Question

In at least one hundred words, discuss how Martin Luther King employs allusion and what effect it achieves in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Use evidence from the text to support your answer. Click here to read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

Answer 1

An allusion is an expression designed to touch a subject without doing it explicitly, we could say its an 'indirect' way to say something (most likely controversial).

In this letter Martin Luther King uses this technique to reference civil rights activists and clergymen which gained him mass support since they could relate to his point of view. Throughout the letter he justifies his cause in the name of justice.

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