Rhetorical Analysis Of I Have A Dream Speech

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When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed all those years ago it was supposed to be, “a beacon light of hope to millions” but instead enhanced the “chains of discrimination “. In Martin Luther King Jr I Have A Dream (1963) speech he implies that African Americans and others being discriminated against have to take a stand as one united people. Dr. King uses the devices of anaphoras, well thought out metaphors and allusions to show we all have to stand together for what’s right. King from the start uses an unparalleled anaphora to ignite the people. “One hundred years later” shows that Negro lives are still languishing in exile from their “joyous daybreak”. Another phrase of “Now is the time” to increase the fire of the people getting reforms accomplished. Urging the American people that if change isn’t now it will pass on to the following generations. Using these exalting anaphoras King raises up the people in order to start the prolonged push for the equality of a free segregated nation. …show more content…

By saying, “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.” The Emancipation Proclamation was to bring hope to millions without none, but was too hot to handle by others. To strengthen his already impressive argument further he states, “this sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” Comparing the anger of his fellow African Americans to freedom and equality. Content on the fact, that the drought of being deprived had ended and equality has begun. Causing a realism amongst the people that effectively illustrates that sitting down and not doing anything will get you nowhere and now is not the time for

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