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"I Have a Dream"
Use of literary devices in MLK's speech
| Example | Literary Device |
|---|---|
| King uses “Trials and Tribulations,” “Dark and Desolate,” “Sweltering Summer,” and “Marvelous new Militancy.” | Alliteration |
| He uses phrases like “Five score years ago” as a reference to the Abe Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. | Allusion |
| King, as an American Black man working within the Civil Rights Movement, is speaking about racism. | Ethos |
| Let freedom ring . . . . Let freedom ring . . . . Let freedom ring . . . . I have a dream . . . . I have a dream . . . . I have a dream . . . . | Repetition |
| "They will not be judged BY THE color OF THEIR skin but BY THE content OF THEIR character." | Parallelism |
| King compares African Americans as living in a “lonely island of poverty” to everyone else indulging in an “ocean of material prosperity.” | Metaphor |
| "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." | Pathos |
| "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence" | Logos |
| “When will you be satisfied?” | Rhetorical Question |
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