In the Martin Luther King’s ‘’I have a Dream’’ speech he uses the repetition of metaphors in his speech. Not only is King using metaphors, he is contrasting them as well to different concepts in his speech. This is proven to be very effective as the listener is serenaded with descriptive wordplay evoking imagery and vivid pictures. A quote of King putting contrasting words together to mean opposite ideas is, ‘’This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality,’’ (King). He uses the metaphor of an extremely hot summer to describe the oppression of the African American people during the civil rights movement. King then proceeds to compare and contrast it to
