Justin Dunn Mrs. Coleman English I 4/3/23 MLK Rhetorical Analysis During Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, he talked about wanting freedom and equality for all America. During King's speech approximately 250,000 Americans of every race were there to fight for equality and to spread awareness of racial injustice. King spoke with a firm, and impactful voice on how he dreamed of unity and that everyone will work together to achieve this dream. King stated that his ultimate belief was, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” In order to get his point across to the nation he uses Anaphora, Allusion, and Repetition. King uses Anaphora many times in his speech, He emphasizes important phrases one of them …show more content…
“This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” He is saying that in the Declaration of Independence it says everyone is equal and that they are not following that today. Everyone is discriminating against black people and treating them lower than they are, when they are just like everyone else. King emphasizes that the blacks need to stick up for themselves and keep fighting for equality and freedom. Lastly, King uses Repetition by repeating the word freedom over and over again. King wants all blacks to be free and for the whites to show them freedom. He also says “let freedom ring”, which means he wants freedom to ring throughout the whole country and world. He wants the blacks to be free from beating and torture and he wants them to be free from the racial injustice. In King's speech he used repetition for other words like we/our, and America. He wants Americans to be treated all the same and to show kindness and generosity to