Style of any type of writing can be described as how the author uses diction, figurative language, sentence structure and many other types of literary devices in there writing. The two pieces of work that will be discussed this essay are Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and James Joyce’s “Hell” . Martin Luther King Jr. gave this speech on the Washington D.C on August 28 1963. He wrote this speech as a call for equality and justice for African American people during the Civil Rights movement. The speech moved the nation toward the path to end discrimination based on race. James Joyce’s “Hell” is an essay from the book “A Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man”. The essay is a very detailed description of what Hell is like. King and …show more content…
Both pieces have extremely good sentence structure. The types of structure that they use is to emphasize the point their or trying to make. For example of this King and Joyce use parallelism as when King told people to “Go back to…” or when Joyce uses “the eye… the nose… the ear…”(47,297). Another element of style that these pieces have in common are they are both very powerful pieces. King and Joyce both grip the audience with their strong words and literary devices. They both of their style is unique and