memories

simile

• this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope
• it came as a joyous long night of their captivity

metaphore

• let us not wallow in the vally of dispare

personification

• a figure of speach
•  time to lift our nation from the quicksand of injustic to the soild rock  

alliteration

• this sweltering summer

onomanopoeia

• with its governor having his lips dripping with the words

hyperbole

• negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering in justice

idioms

• five score years ago

cliches

• in what will go down in history

cliches