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Martin Luther King's The March On Washington

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Martin Luther King was an African-American minister who led the Civil Rights Movement and fought against Jim Crow Laws. He was an excellent speaker who led one of the greatest demonstrations in the country called “ The March on Washington.” “ I Have a Dream” is one of his most famous speeches because of its style and structure. King used metaphors in his speech to sound more credible and to sound more convincing. One metaphor that King used was “transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood”. King meant that the jangling discords were Jim Crow Laws and segregation ended, the scene would be a symphony. In addition to metaphors, King uses allusion in order to support his reasons why people
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