Patrick Henry I Have A Dream Speech Analysis

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The major ideal held by both Dr Martin Luther King Jr in I Have A Dream and Patrick Henry in Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death is freedom. Both spurred the on looking crowd in righteous applause. The significance of the speeches is exceedingly helped by their use of pathos, egos and logos.
Significance of a speech is affected by the people listening to the speech and how the speaker is incorporating the listeners. The integration of pathos into the speech allows for an increased emotional response from the audience. Patrick Henry in Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death uses repetition to refer to the audience. “Sir” is often repeated through his speech as references to all the men present at the first Virginia Convention. By referring to the convention as a whole he unites the listeners in his speech and thus his cause. Therefore he has encompassed his audience in his delivery.
In comparison Dr Martin Luther King Jr, in I Have A Dream uses synecdoche. People came from all over America to listen to Luther King’s speech, to combat the diversity of people he refers to people of different states through the name of the states, such as “Mississippi … Alabama … Georgia … America”; also he refers to the black community through the
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His perfect America consists of a place where people “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. He does this through references to the Bible, the Gettysburg Address, the US Declaration of Independence and well-known hymns and sprituals. These references allow people t of all colours to be able to fell included in the speech. They cause a stir as people connect to the well-known pharses, such as “My country ‘tis of thee” and “all men are created equal”. These allusions outline a perfect world in the “autumn of freedom” rather than the current world, suffering from “this sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate