Iaccept the nobel prize for peace at a moment when 22 million negroes of the united states of america are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice.
-martin luther king jr., nobel prize acceptance speech, 1964
which literary device does king use in this passage?
a. hyperbole
b. personification
c. metaphor
d. generalization

You could have knocked me over with a feather! a. hyperbole b. mood c. repetition d. stanza

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.

Which piece of textual evidence from the short story "civil peace" by chinua achebe can be used to defend the claim thatviolence has not ended despite the end of war?