Highlight the use of anaphora in this passage.
What is an example
of anaphora in this passage?
V
This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of
hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in
What is emphasized by the use of anaphora in this
the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous
passage?
daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
v
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly
crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives
on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean
of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the
Negro is still languished
in the corners of American
society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
