Rhetorical Devices in I Have A Dream
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I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lesson Plans by Elizabeth Pedro and Kristy Littlehale
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is a powerful message to the African American community to be strong and persevere during a time of great inequality in the United States.
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Rhetorical Devices in I Have a Dream Speech
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- ANTITHESIS
- REPETITION
- ANALOGY
- The Declaration of Independence ...that all men are created equal...
- INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
- “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
- You're hired! Welcome to the team!
- So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York… when we allow freedom to ring-- when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city... to join hands and sing , ‘Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last.’”
- “In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check… Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’”
- RESTATEMENT
- RHETORICAL DEVICES
- PARALLELISM
- “In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds… We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.”
- “We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”
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