I have a dream修辞手法分析

I Have a Dream

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

今天，我高兴地同大家一起，参加这次将成为我国历史上为了争取自由而举行的最伟大的示威集会。

①②Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation（(Allusion 典故it can introduce variety and energy into an otherwise limited discussion and please the reader by reminding him of a pertinent story or figure and thus can enrich the work or speech by association and give it depth ）and Periodic Sentence 圆周句It drawing the listener’s attention to the end of the sentence, and it can be used to produce humorous and emphatic effect ）. ③This momentous decree（antonomasia 换称it is the replacement of a proper noun by a common noun for the purpose of being easily understood）came ④as a great beacon light of hope（smile）（a comparison of things of different groups but they have same characteristics）to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in ⑤the flames of withering injustice (metaphor)（A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things.）. It came⑥as a joyous daybreak（transferred epithets 移就it bears the characteristics of brevity and vividness.）to end the long night of their captivity（smile）.

100 年前，一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项重要法令的颁布，对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。

⑦But one hundred years later (repetition)( draw people’s attention to it or to emphasis the emotions), 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 on⑧⑨a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity (oxymoron 矛盾修饰法in it, apparently contradictory expressions are juxtaposed for witty or striking effect. )and transferred epithets 转移修饰法) and metonymy 转喻（是指用某个属性的或者暗示的词代替真正要表达的东西或人using lonely island to replace the poverty class and using the vast ocean of material

prosperity to replace the social wealth ）. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

然而，100 年后，黑人依然没有获得自由。100 年后，黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下。100 年后，黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上。100 年后，黑人依然在美国社会中向隅而泣，依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊。所以，我们今天来到这里，要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would