Rhetorical Devices In Lincoln Jail Speech

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In the beginning of Martin Luther King Jr. speech his tone is slow as he presents himself in front of the Lincoln Memorial. “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” He takes mid sentence pauses, these unnecessary pauses are called caesuras. The pauses midway provide the listeners with a chance to comprehend all the points he makes. “Five score years ago... signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” This is an example of logos, the speech has elements of documented sources. The speech has multiple examples of repetition for example he repeats one hundred years later, a total of four times in one paragraph. BY adding this repetition, he is emphasizing
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