Rhetorical Devices
"Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again"
Epistrophe
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil right activist.
No
"But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech.
Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right."
Diction
What happened to King after this speech?
King got assassinated.
"Thank you very kindly, my friends"
Pathos
"The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around."
Personification
The 1960's saw many ______ occurring.
movements
"We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada"
Logos
"And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon. And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality"
Allusion
King's nonviolence approach to the civil rights movement only prolonged things
Yes
"It’s a winding, meandering road. It’s really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles — or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you’re about 2200 feet below sea level."
Imagery
What were people doing in Memphis as a result of inequality and poor working conditions?
Revolts and Boycots
"I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I’ve forgotten what those telegrams said. I’d received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I’ve forgotten what that letter said."
Anaphora
Oftentimes, leaders' lives are put in jeopardy because of the amount of backlash they receive (Especially during the Civil Rights movements).
Yes
Who was Ralph Abernathy?
He was a close friend to King and a civil rights activist.
"You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh’s court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that’s the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity."
Analogy
Who was the man that assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr.?
James Earl Ray
"I wouldn’t have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had."
Ethos