How Do Literary Devices Used In I Have A Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech was made in the March On Washington. MLK Jr. emphasizes the importance of the passing of the bill and equal rights to all people by using nonviolent protests as he mentions it in his speech. To help his audience understand his goal, Martin Luther King Jr. had used a variety of literary devices. This includes metaphors, similes, anaphores, and allusions. This great significance in his speech makes his speech the best out of John Lewis’s “Patience is a Nasty and Dirty Word” and Malcolm X’s “What Does Mississippi Have to Do With Harlem” speech. Whose speeches used little or no literary devices.
Martin Luther King Jr used metaphors and similes to show the importance of equal rights to all people. For example, on paragraph 7 he says “The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright days of justice emerge.” In this case, the whirlwinds are African Americans who are fighting for their rights and MLK Jr. is trying to tell the audience that the African Americans who have been treated badly will not stop fighting for the justice they deserve until they have made a great change in this country that gives the equal rights to all people. In comparison …show more content…
In paragraphs 17 through 19, MLK Jr used the anaphore “I Have a Dream”. This helps the audience realize how passing the bill will help them because every time MLK Jr. always say “I Have a Dream”, he always end the sentence what he dreams of having. Since, he support the bill, he believes that the bill will get those dreams for him, so his audience will want that same thing. On the other hand, Malcolm X’s “What Does Mississippi Have to do With Harlem” speech used parallelism, the repetition of the same line twice. This method does not help the audience to remember as much as anaphores because it is only 2
Martin Luther King Jr used metaphors and similes to show the importance of equal rights to all people. For example, on paragraph 7 he says “The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright days of justice emerge.” In this case, the whirlwinds are African Americans who are fighting for their rights and MLK Jr. is trying to tell the audience that the African Americans who have been treated badly will not stop fighting for the justice they deserve until they have made a great change in this country that gives the equal rights to all people. In comparison …show more content…
In paragraphs 17 through 19, MLK Jr used the anaphore “I Have a Dream”. This helps the audience realize how passing the bill will help them because every time MLK Jr. always say “I Have a Dream”, he always end the sentence what he dreams of having. Since, he support the bill, he believes that the bill will get those dreams for him, so his audience will want that same thing. On the other hand, Malcolm X’s “What Does Mississippi Have to do With Harlem” speech used parallelism, the repetition of the same line twice. This method does not help the audience to remember as much as anaphores because it is only 2