Throughout his speech, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. uses an arsenal of rhetorical devices when trying to persuade his audience at Riverside Church in Harlem of the injustices of the Vietnam war. The most convincing of these devices were his knowledge of ethics, emotion, imagery, and rhetorical questions to convince the congregation to speak up and break the silence about the war in Vietnam.
Reverend King begins by planting a seed of confidence and trust in the congregation. He does this by informing listeners of his experience as a preacher and with facing difficult moral situations such as a riot in a norther ghetto. He says his awareness of this problem "grows out of [his] experience in the ghettos of the North". This knowledge of his
Reverend King begins by planting a seed of confidence and trust in the congregation. He does this by informing listeners of his experience as a preacher and with facing difficult moral situations such as a riot in a norther ghetto. He says his awareness of this problem "grows out of [his] experience in the ghettos of the North". This knowledge of his