Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela
Many people may wonder why so many different race had there own opinion about slavery and South Africans. Two famous speeches along the same topic can have many different meanings but yet still want the same thing. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela both wrote speeches along the same topic of freedom but use rhetorical devices in different ways.
One rhetorical devices both men use in their speeches is repetition. King tend to use more repetition than Mandela in his speech. “One hundred years later.” (King 270). King uses this phrase more than 3 times in his speech. He uses this to explain how one hundred years later the African Americans is not free. He said this over and over again to get his …show more content…
Once again King uses more parallelism. One example he uses is, “We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable” (King 270) “We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self and rubbed by signs stating ‘For Whites Only’ (King 270). He uses these phrases as parallelism to get his point across that the South Americans will never be satisfied as long as they are not free with the same rights as the whites. Mandela also uses parallelism somewhat on the same side as King does. “Let there be justice for all.” “Let there be peace for all.” (Mandela 280). Mandela uses these phrases to mainly do the same King and get his point across to the people to let there be freedom, justice, and peace among the South Africans. Both King and Mandela use there phrases as parallelism to get all their points, all there meanings and their reasons across about freedom to all black, whites and South Africans.
The last type of rhetorical devices is rhetorical questions. Out of both speeches King is the only one that uses the rhetorical question. “When will you be satisfied?” (King 270). King uses this to explain why and when they will be satisfied. This is not a question to be answered for the audience to answer but for King to answer it himself and keep the audience thinking. Mandela on the other did not use a rhetorical question only because he focused more on the other devices and
Many people may wonder why so many different race had there own opinion about slavery and South Africans. Two famous speeches along the same topic can have many different meanings but yet still want the same thing. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela both wrote speeches along the same topic of freedom but use rhetorical devices in different ways.
One rhetorical devices both men use in their speeches is repetition. King tend to use more repetition than Mandela in his speech. “One hundred years later.” (King 270). King uses this phrase more than 3 times in his speech. He uses this to explain how one hundred years later the African Americans is not free. He said this over and over again to get his …show more content…
Once again King uses more parallelism. One example he uses is, “We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable” (King 270) “We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self and rubbed by signs stating ‘For Whites Only’ (King 270). He uses these phrases as parallelism to get his point across that the South Americans will never be satisfied as long as they are not free with the same rights as the whites. Mandela also uses parallelism somewhat on the same side as King does. “Let there be justice for all.” “Let there be peace for all.” (Mandela 280). Mandela uses these phrases to mainly do the same King and get his point across to the people to let there be freedom, justice, and peace among the South Africans. Both King and Mandela use there phrases as parallelism to get all their points, all there meanings and their reasons across about freedom to all black, whites and South Africans.
The last type of rhetorical devices is rhetorical questions. Out of both speeches King is the only one that uses the rhetorical question. “When will you be satisfied?” (King 270). King uses this to explain why and when they will be satisfied. This is not a question to be answered for the audience to answer but for King to answer it himself and keep the audience thinking. Mandela on the other did not use a rhetorical question only because he focused more on the other devices and