Mlk I Have A Dream Speech

In “I Have a Dream”MLK gives a speech about how the black man is still owed his rights ,but we will get our rights back peacefully and without violence.To me his speech is most compelling becuase he can properly use devices and speek with conviction and passion.

Martin uses the device flashback and pathos to create emotion and also to emphasize that we are still not free.”five score years ago a great american … signed the emancipation proclamation”(2,king)He furthers his point by saying that “But one hundred years later the negro is still not free…”(3,king).When he says “A great american … signed the emancipation proclamation”he was alluding to abraham lincoln our president when he signed the crucial document.He used pathos by filling people

to the brim with great sadness and anger with the notion that black people are still not free.Instead of taking lives ,and striking fear into the white man MLK wanted us to get our rights back the right way as to not give the whites more ammunition against us.
Black men have come to get their “unalienable rights of life,liberty and happiness” But america refused on that promise. MLK used metaphor and allusion to further sway the crowd to relate to him.Mlk uses metaphor when he says “we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check” He uses this metaphor as an example as if they have come to get their money that we have worked hard for and was refused of the promise that we were guaranteed.He used allusion when he says “unalienable rights of life liberty and pursuit of happiness” he was referring to the declaration of independence.