I Have A Dream Speech Rhetorical Devices

Martin Luther King, was a man of equal and respectful treatment. In 1963, with a frustrating yet respectful tone, King gave a speech “I have a Dream” which had the intriguing purpose to inform the nation on how African-americans should be granted the same freedom with no violence. This speech was presented in front of 250,000 people, mainly those who were for King’s cause. While listening to this speech the main rhetorical device, metaphor, is presented. He used metaphor when he referred to drinking to together as white and black, he said “ “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred”, King meant that we can’t let the fact that the world is so deep in hate control how we will live