I have a dream

I have a dream 1. What indicates that King's words were meant primarily for an audience of listeners, and only secondarily for a reading audience? To hear these indications, try reading the speech aloud. What uses of parallelism do you notice? This essay has analyzed Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech for voice and rhetoric, through the analysis of his argument, how he supports that argument, the voice he uses in the speech and the audience at whom the speech is directed. It is obvious why over 200,000 people gathered peacefully in Washington D.C. to listen to Dr. King deliver his speech. "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!" This entire last paragraph of King's speech is an example of parallelism. This shows that all of these different races and religions are no better than the other.

2. Where in the speech does King acknowledge that not all of his listeners are African American? “It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.”Here, in this sentence after announcing the theme, Dr. King continues to broaden the appeal of the speech to include all people, not only the blacks in the audience. With this single sentence he tells the rest of America that he and his followers believe in the same things as they do, and that there is no reason to fear.

3.How much emphasis does King place on the past? How much does he place on the future?
On the past, there are 3 point he placed. Namely phrases from the Declaration of Independence, patriotic and religious documents and he also drew from the Bible in the "Dream" speech, focusing particularly on the tales