May someone write this in CEW Format for me In Lines 1-9 I quote it says "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” So in these lines he is referring to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which was made a hundred years before King's speech, "I Have a Dream." Lincoln was a huge contributor to the fight against discrimination. An allusion is a literary device where the speaker or the author refers directly or indirectly to a well-known person, place, event or literary work. In this case it was used to contribute to the message of what he is conveying.
In Lines 17-24 It says “ So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition” which is an Allusion because it's not telling you what the shameful condition is till the next couple of lines.
In Lines 120–140 King is alluding to the Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln to commemorate the cemetery at Gettysburg in 1863, a short speech that is often considered the speech that began to make America whole again during the Civil War, even though the war had two more years to run.