Rhetorical techniques are techniques that author or writer use to get their point across to the audience. Many speakers use these techniques to have their audience persuaded to feel how they feel about the topic. Elie Wiesel uses these techniques in his speech,”Keep Memory Alive,” he did an amazing job persuading his audience not to forget about the Holocaust. So did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech,”I Have a Dream,”where he talked about racial injustice. In King’s “I Have a Dream,” speech he uses many rhetorical devices, like repetition, metaphors, and allusion. He also uses pathos which is a rhetorical appeal. Through his speech, King uses these rhetorical devices to get his point across, and persuade the audience to feel how he