Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream Speech

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Five score years ago… Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr., delivers “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28th, 1963 to call for an end to all racism and segregation in the U.S. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech was most effective due to his use of parallelism, repetition, strong diction and allusion towards the audience; these rhetorical devices demonstrate both ethos and logos to help the audience fully perceive Martin’s message clearly.

First, Martin Luther uses logos to make the audience know that they, people of color, have not been given an equal share of opportunities, rights, or even the same respect that white people receive. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all