Mlk Rhetorical Devices

Martin Luther King Martin Luther King’s rhetoric speech “I Have a Dream” given in 1693, March on Washington, has noticeable different rhetorical devices that set this speech apart. Devices that Martin Luther King used to become the voice of thousands of people, making his beliefs immortal throughout the years. As for today, society embraces his ideas and he is, until now, the voice of those who could not stand up for themselves. He has such a good way to convert what he sees and believes into words that will later share a message to the word. But, how can a speech be so memorable? Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream”, was full of rhetoric devices, mainly to make the speech more appealing to those who were standing for his beliefs as well. The structure is well managed to those who are more likely to be the audience of this speech. In the beginning, standing the point that his people was discriminated by those who felt they were better, mostly seen at the time, negroes being discriminated by white people. Then, the fact that rights were not yet to put in place, as promised, even though they were

Give negroes the right to be just as good as white males or females. Yet, in all that time, the idea of racial equality was not really increasing in fact it had decreased. Therefore, America should embrace the ideas of racial equality. In summary, Martin Luther King’s speech utilizes the rhetorical devises of pathos, ethos and logos as part of it, to make his speech more appealing to the situation. Martin Luther King’s speech states how the civil rights movement, has not yet to be applied, making the speech a little more empathetic appealing to the ethics and feelings of the audience. He promoted the freeing of negroes. Stating that the right and logic thing to do was keep the word and do at it was stated in the constitution since the