…when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you

seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public
amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see the tears
welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored
children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her
little mental sky…
Type of figurative language: Metaphor
Meaning of figurative language: The metaphor of "deppresing clouds" and "little
mental sky" repersent the little girl's inferiority towards the white children
that get to go to the park.
Effect on tone and mood: The mood is distressed and the tone is angering.
Effect on audience: The mood and tone put a sad effect on the audience, seeing
how racism even effected children's simple lives, by showing it from their
perspective.

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.
Type of figurative language: Simile
Meaning of figurative language: "Like a boil" is used as a simile for racism.
Effect on tone and mood: The mood is repusled and the tone is hopeful
Effect on audience: The comparason of a boil to racism gives the audience
something easy to relate to.

Over and over again I have found myself asking: "Who worships here? Who is their
God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with
words of interposition and nullification? Where were their voices of support when
tired, bruised, and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark
dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest?"
Type of figurative language: Metaphor
Meaning of figurative language: "The dark dungeons of complacency" symbolize
the smug satifaction of the white people living without racism on their shoulders,
while the "bright hills of creative protest" symbolize the fight for a better
future ahead for black people.
Effect on tone and mood: The mood is selfish and the tone is pleading.
Effect on audience: These contrasting metaphors provide the audience visuals
from each perspective.

In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and
principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores
of society.
Type of figurative language: Metaphor
Meaning of figurative language: The Church is represented as a thermostat rather
than as a thermometer. A thermometer signies that the temperature (popular belief)
is merely being displayed. A thermostat has the power to change the tempurature
completely.
Effect on tone and mood: The mood is enlightening and the tone is declaritive.
Effect on audience: This metaphor makes the subject easily understandable for
ther audience.

It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am sure
that, if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and
comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal.
Type of figurative language: Metaphor
Meaning of figurative language: The speaker is comparing the harsh times of
Hitler's rule in Germany to that of slavery's rule in America, and announcing
what he would sacrifice for his people's comfort and safety.
Effect on tone and mood: The mood is inspiring and the tone is honorable.
Effect on audience: This metaphor is to help inspire the people to stand for
what they believe is right despite the consequences.