Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” answers the white clergymen’s criticisms about his nonviolent protests, accusing him of inciting violence in Alabama. In Alabama, with its extreme racial injustice,, both white and some hesitant black Americans prefer allowing more time to resolve racial issues and condemn King for encouraging protest in the community. They label King as an ‘extremist’. He responds to his audience by offering a new perspective on the term ‘extremist’. King appeals to emotion and reason through anaphora, allusion, and analogy to transform both his white and black audience’s perspective.
King evokes emotion within his audience by using allusion and anaphora. Alluding to both biblical and historical figures,
King evokes emotion within his audience by using allusion and anaphora. Alluding to both biblical and historical figures,