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I dream a world Flashcards

1
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Tone

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Hopeful

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Poet will discuss

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What kind of world he wishes the world to become

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Hopeful Tone

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He expresses his personal thoughts and dreams of a boundaryless world

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It has an echo of

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Martin luther kings repetition of i have a dream

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L2
Scorn

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Dislike , disrespect

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L3
Personification “ love “

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The place of the pastor in a church and brings a religious element into the poem

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L4 “ adorn “

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Decorate

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Adorn

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Personification
Just as African - American mothers and grandmothers would beautify their gardens

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Peace

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Hughes imagines “peace “ decorating the entire world with itself

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L5
Connotation

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Freedom will know who deserves it and will grant it to only those who earn freedom

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L6

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Hughes says that he dreams of a world in which everyone will both want and have freedom

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L7 saps

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Destroy and weaken

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13
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connotation

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where greed no longer controls a person

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L8
avarice

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insatiable ( impossible to satisfy )
desire to hoard and gain wealth

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blights

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Spoils , damages Greed will no longer control human kind

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The narrator dreams of

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A world in which greed will not rule the lives of people in the world

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L10

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Most majority white educational institutions workplaces and entertainment canters did not allow

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L11
Bounties

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Rewards

19
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Bounties

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All races will have equal opportunities for success

20
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The narrator dreams of a world

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where the race of a person does not matter and every person in the world is free

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L13 wretchedness

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Miserable
Personification

22
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L14 Simile

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Used to compare the presence of joy of a pearl

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L16

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Last line emphasizes that such a world can only exist in a dream vision

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