Martin Luther King Speech Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Dr. Martin Luther king is an expert at persuading people. He gave an emotional and persuasive speech about the problems with the Vietnam War in regards to the men and women in the United States under the poverty line. During this Speech he uses three main persuasive techniques, the first and most widely used is Loaded language, he also uses appeal to emotion and also uses cause and effect.
The main technique for persuasion that King uses is loaded language. You could even say the speech is loaded with such emotionally charged language. King uses phrases like “cruel manipulation of the poor” which is used to explain how the United states is using to poor to further its own goals but does not actually care about them. Another one that caught my attention was “american would never be free or saved from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they still wear”. This extremely deep and emotional quote is the root of Kings argument.
Another Technique that King uses expertly is Emotional Appeal. King has such a good base for this every

Martin King uses is Cause and effect.
The main Cause and effect he talks about is in the beginning of the speech. He talks about the Poverty program, it would save many poor blacks from poverty but when the vietnam war started, all the money for that program went to the war effort. King combines cause and effect and appeal to emotion in this technique. Dr king says “We were talking young black men ... and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee the liberties of southeast asia which they had not found in southwest georgia and East Harlem”. King expertly uses this to show the american public of the problems. Dr. Martin Luther King persuades the american public to do something, rather than nothing with loaded language, appeal to emotion and cause and effect. King is amazing at public speaking and speech writing and this speech exemplifies