We all know both abraham lincoln and dr martin luther king jr both wrote some amazing speeches.both men had three things in common for example both had repetition,parallelism and tone.and using these three factors help them write a spectacular speech. Repetition was used in both speeches and the reason it was used was to let the people and the readers know what their key point was and their purpose for writing the speech. “In the i have dream speech” king repetition was “i have dream a today! I have a dream that one day down in alabama ---with its vicious racist,governor have his lips dripping with the words interposition….i have a dream today!.the repeating phrase is “i have a dream” he uses that phrase to let you know that he believes that one day we’ll all wake up and be free.Now we …show more content…
What this means is who ever has the courage to step us must be very dedicated to what they are doing and that they we live for a long time.In comparison Dr martian Luther king parallelism was “american has given the negro people a bad check,a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds”.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.and so we come to cash this check ,a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice”. King words speak for themselves king believed that the Americans were telling the negro people that they cant have freedom but he refuse to believe to listen to them he wanted to rise from below the grounds and get the freedom he and all the negro people