Rhetorical Devices In Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

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Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther king is well known for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. This speech moved many hearts of the people who were present the day of hearing that speech and even to those just reading it now. But devices such as rhetorical devices are a big key source to the appeals of this speech. On August 28, 1963 is when king presented his speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for 200,000 people to inform people about the violence that was happening at the time towards the colored, and his ideas on how he feels and hope for peace for everyone. In this speech King used rhetorical devices, which are ethos, pathos and logos. King used ethos in his speech when he was explaining to the audience the harm that