Reading And Pinctuation In I Have Dream By Martin Luther King

As Mark was reading a speech lyrics before the speaker came out,He thought to himself this is very boring there is no emotion in it. Then the speaker came on and did his speech.Mark thought that was so good It was very emotional,and now he knows that there's a difference between listening to and reading a speech. The audience experiences different pace, emotion, and repetition while reading or listening to a speech. In the speech “I have dream” by Martin Luther King He uses punctuation and commas to show a pause in his writing,but when he speaks it he uses his voice. In the speech by John F Kennedy, he uses repetition and emotion to get his point across. When reading a speech the reader can only depend on the words, while listening to a speech the listener can hear the audience's reactions and watch the speaker's body language to get a deeper meaning from the speech. The difference between reading and listening to a speech …show more content…
For example, In reading a speech the pace changes by the writer using punctuation like commas to show pauses. King writes “Four score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation” (King 1).When reading, one can see punctuation, uch as commas, which indicate when to pause. In listening to a speech the speaker uses its voice to pause King writes “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation” (King 1). What King writes shows When listening, one can hear pauses when the speaker enunciates and slows down his speech, even when no punctuation is present in the written text.In reading a speech the pace changes by the writer using punctuation like commas to show pauses,but in listening to a speech the speaker uses its voice to