Comparing Martin Luther King And Abraham Lincoln's Speech

Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, both made powerful and important impacts. Both of their speeches were made because they believed in a better America and they used their words to help solve important problems.. Such as using repetition and parallelism to empower their speeches. Making their tone in such a way that it inspires the listeners as they speak.Whether if the speeches were long or short the meaning always stayed big. A strong theme that was used was freedom. King and Lincoln both used this theme in their own way and it is important to find how this purpose and how it affected their speeches. Freedom helped their speeches, but it was used very differently. Lincoln shows that the people who died will be remembered

This similarity in their writing, repetition and parallelism, was used more than once in speeches and gave lots of life to the writing. King expresses “But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.” Just from this example you can see the emotion that is created. Freedom was impacted the same way when it was addressed. Lincoln’s most powerful part of the speech used parallelism. These words represented freedom and what America is meant to be and using parallelism add even more emotion to it. Lincoln states “ That government of the people, by the people, for the people”.” The people”, these words were straight to the point, short and suspenseful. You want to know what he is going to say while he says this and made his conclusion exciting though strong. To show a powerful theme such as freedom. It is necessary to use these rhetorical devices, necessary to use a set tone that fit with your word, necessary to know the purpose and what you really want listeners to get. Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln combined all of this in their own way and improved the America you live in