In Martin Luther King JR’s speech ‘I Have A Dream’, he uses many different rhetorical devices to enhance the effectiveness of his speech. One rhetorical devices he uses a lot throughout his speech is repetition. By using repetition, he leaves the audience remembering the phrases he repeated adding to the power of his speech. What made the way he used repetition so powerful is that the phrases he repeated were a summary of the main points he was trying to make. This is significant in his persuasion power because if all the audience member walked away with was all the phrases he repeated throughout his speech they would have the message he was trying to give. If the repeated phrases he said were listed out in the order they were used in the speech