Allusion In Dr. Martin Luther King's Speech

As we all know the great, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was an equal rights activist and much more has did a number of brave and honorable has gave many speech’s and One of his most admired and memorable was “I have a Dream “He gave the speech On August 28, 1963 in Washington, DC on the steps of Abraham Lincoln’s Memorial. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used many forms of Allusion’s and Metaphor’s to build l throughout his speech.
In his speech, “I have a dream “he started off by greeting all the people that showed up and getting straight to the point. The first form he used was Allusion, which is an expression designed to call something to mind without addressing it. “ Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation” He is referring back way before his time to the one that made a Stance towards making people see that we are all equal no matter what physical feature we have. Another quote that he stated was... Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness

and hatred. Dr. King is alluding to the technique of not using violence to seek closures or justice.
In his speech, he also uses many kinds of metaphor’s, like he does allusion’s to essentially uses them to build up his argument.

He starts to use repetition and saying, “I have a dream…” then goes on to say. “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers” In this quote, he is trying to get people to visualize that one day they will have to put all the discrimination and prejudice aside and come together as one and support each other in a loving manner. As he proceeds to say, “Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.” Dr. King is applying that they should not get discouraged and continue to see into the positive side of

things.
There are a lot of ways they Dr. King uses to indicates his argument but he uses Allusion more than he uses metaphors He begins off by saying, “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” King is referring to the document that claims that “All men are created equal, with certain unalienable rights” One other quote that stands out as an example of allusion is, “This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.” He is calling upon them to achieve the founding ideals of the nation with Liberty and freedom.
In conclusion, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr gave his most memorable speech and it made a really huge impact on being viewed as “Equal.” He developed his speech with allusion’s and Metaphor’s so that he would hopefully get through to everybody and make a change in the way they proclaim things.