MARTIN LUTHER KING'S SPEECH "I HAVE A DREAM"

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The idea that Martin Luther King is trying to get through to the audience in his speech is to unite black and white people for them to live in harmony together and for the black people to be treated better.

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Martin Luther King is using Pathos and logos in his speech:

Pathos:"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land."

Logos: "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as ell as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

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TECHNIQUES:

REPETITION:" Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."

"We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹"

SIMIILE: "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹"

RHETORICAL QUESTION: "There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"

METAPHOR: "And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of brutality. 

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Martin Luther King's speech has significant historical context mostly going through the history of America and the Emancipation proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln. 

5.  Martin Luther King's speech is one of or the most powerful speeches in  the history. This was because he succesfully nailed two modes of persuasion in his speech "logos" and "Pathos". He did this by mentioning the history of America, mainly of the signing of the emancipation proclamation by Abraham Lincoln and what it states, using this as proof of what wrong is being committed and their obtrusion. He also describes the injustice towards black people using pathos.