Directions: martin luther king, jr.’s “letter from birmingham jail” includes many examples of figurative language meant to persuade people to take action. read the lines from the letter and identify one type of figurative language (some excerpts may contain more than one), its meaning, its effect on mood and tone, and its effect on the audience. an example has been completed for you. then, answer the analysis question.

2. like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
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effect on audience: