Reread paragraph 6. Which two rhetorical devices are most important in the paragraph? We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to
engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make
real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to
the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to
the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. It would be
fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's
legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

•Rhetorical question &
Parallelism

• Repetition & Parallelism

•Absolute language & Extended metaphor

•Extended metaphor & Rhetorical question