Baptist Minister and Activist, Martin Luther King Jr., gathered over 250,000 Americans on August 28th, 1963, to voice his concern about Civil Rights. By making use of appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos, as well as literary devices, King successfully directs to his audience, enlightening them about the issues African Americans go through, and righteously making a statement on how every human being deserves to be treated equally. This speech paved the way for Martin Luther King Jr. to become an important piece on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the end of segregation. With a hopeful tone, King delivers a magnificent speech on how if we all work together, change can be achieved.
On this famous speech, “I Have A Dream.”, [he] mentions how five score years ago, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by a great American. King uses literary device, allusion, to refer to …show more content…
Metaphors play a very important role on his successful delivery, he uses metaphors to capture and describe circumstances that otherwise, people who haven’t gone through what African Americans have gone through, would not understand. For instance, “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. Appealing to Ethos at the mention of injustice. On the other hand, King uses connotation in words such as: brotherhood, freedom, and oppression, just to mention a few, to awaken an emotional response from the audience, appealing Pathos. Utilizing analogies, such as “In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.”, he appeals to Logos. It gives further logical explanation on how the Constitution and Declaration of Independence gives every American, black and white, the rights of life and liberty, and how people of color do not have said
On this famous speech, “I Have A Dream.”, [he] mentions how five score years ago, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by a great American. King uses literary device, allusion, to refer to …show more content…
Metaphors play a very important role on his successful delivery, he uses metaphors to capture and describe circumstances that otherwise, people who haven’t gone through what African Americans have gone through, would not understand. For instance, “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. Appealing to Ethos at the mention of injustice. On the other hand, King uses connotation in words such as: brotherhood, freedom, and oppression, just to mention a few, to awaken an emotional response from the audience, appealing Pathos. Utilizing analogies, such as “In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.”, he appeals to Logos. It gives further logical explanation on how the Constitution and Declaration of Independence gives every American, black and white, the rights of life and liberty, and how people of color do not have said