I Have a Dream August 28 1963 a powerful speech I Have A Dream was delivered to over 200 000 people at the Lincoln memorial in Washington D C by Dr Martin Luther King Jr Not only a highly respected activist and heroic leader for civil rights he was a well educated and phenomenal speaker King captivated his audiences by using various strategies such as metaphors repetition historical and spiritual allusions and word choice Some of these techniques will be explained here Metaphorically Kings spee
The speech I have a dream by Martin Luther King Junior is one of the most influential speeches ever made This speech resonated very well with the audience It is formed with powerful imagery and quotes from other important speakers such as A Lincoln There is also a lot of repetition in this speech such as One hundred years later which dramatizes the racial problems in America and makes the audience desperate for a final solution He did his speech one the same place Lincoln made promises about de
I have watched Mandela present this speech several times watching for what I believe are his strengths and weaknesses in making this a more effective argument When Mandela speaks there is hardly any inflection in his voice However simultaneously the tone of his voice does command respect from his audience While Mandela speaks he also uses no hand gesture or gesture of any other form at all nor makes any sustained eye contact at all He holds his speech notes in his hand and that is all referring
I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Martin Luther King Jr an activist delivered his most memorable speech I Have a Dream in August 28 1963 to more than 200 000 people Incredible use of rhetorical appeals especially ethos metaphors and repetition demonstrate the demand for racial equality and outcries of social injustice Research knowledge and personal experience helped Martin Luther King Jr illustrate his ideas of segregation not being lawful to thousands of people white and colored gathered listeni