Although I have read Martin Luther King's speech, "I Have a Dream," I have never really read it closely, I did not have as much knowledge about rhetoric as I do now. Such as, King used pathos to draw the audience in. He appealed to the audience's emotions, on several occasions he said "we" or "our" making a personal connection with them. Furthermore, King included himself with the community and wanted to inform his listeners that he was with them in their fight for equality. Thus he also used ethos, he was credible due to actually being a part of the movement. Even where King gave his speech held great importance, he went to the capital, around the Lincoln memorial, to stir more emotions. All of this ties together with how he wanted to connect
