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

Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have a Dream” speech grabs the audience’s attention and blew them away with his uplifting motivational appeal. For example, Dr. King used repetition to assure the 200,000 people watching that they are free at last. When Dr.King would use repetition, the audience would cheer because they can understand the importance of his message. Also, he used imagery to help the audience capture the words that are being said. The parts of the speech where he used imagery, was to describe the bad of the world with good things. Using these skills made the speech come alive in a way that could persuade a whole crowd. Dr. King couldn’t have said anything better.