Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: His Dream Our Reality!

The date was August 28, 1963, when the world would make a change of history for the better. It all started off when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presented his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln memorial. The crowd was filled with different varieties of people that were all gathered up to acknowledge Dr. Kings philosophy and purpose. This world would have been different if not for Dr. King’s speech presenting his ideas and main goals, which were gained through his philosophy of non-violence and hard work. Dr. King’s main purpose was to have peace between the Whites and Blacks, which he accomplished through his speech by showing his integrity. In the “I Have a Dream” speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. exercised strong stylistic techniques like hyperbole, irony, metaphor, and repetition to establish his integrity.
Undeniably, Martin Luther King Jr. did a fantastic job in presenting the “I Have a Dream” speech to his nation on addressing his exasperation on concerns of racial conflicts. Dr. King; however, exercises hyperbole in his speech to illustrate his main purpose. Hyperbole is used when a writer wants to exaggerate or emphasis a point to evoke strong feelings towards the audience but is not meant to be taken literal. Martin Luther King Jr. states, “When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last’” (King, 2). King’s quote is an example of hyperbole because he exaggerates his ma...

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... MLK does a great job in exercising repetition in this quote which appeals to the audience’s emotion so that he can establish his integrity.
Overall, Martin Luther King Jr. did a fantastic job in presenting a well developed speech to his audience, which helped expedite his dream of ending racial conflicts and bringing people of different race, color, and religion together. MLK’s main purpose was accomplished through his magnificent words that he left behind that day in the speech presentation. The stylistic technique’s helped make a huge impact towards people by making his speech much stronger to show ethics and credibility, emotion towards the audience, and logical reasoning which helped establish his integrity.

Works Cited

King, Martin L. “I Have a Dream – Address at March on Washington”. Lincoln Memorial. Washington, D.C. August 28, 1963. Keynote Address .