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"I Have a Dream" speech
Dr. King offers many pieces of advice to his followers in the quest for civil rights. One of the first is that his followers must not jeopardize their "rightful place" with "wrongful deeds." Even...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
A corpus is a collection of "thousands or millions of words" that are considered to be authentic samples of the native speaker's language usage (Muller, F., & Waibel, B., "Corpus...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the most often studied, cited, and referenced speeches in American history. While it’s true that some of its appeal is derived from...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr. directs his "I Have a Dream Speech," delivered in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963, to the entire nation, but his use of "we" referred to the nearly 250,000 people...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. relies heavily on ethical (ethos) and emotional (pathos) appeals. That being the case, not many facts are clearly presented in the speech;...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. It was part of a civil rights demonstration called the “March on Washington for Jobs...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King bases his thesis on two main ideas: (1) African Americans still are not free; and (2) now is the time for African Americans to fight for freedom....
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. does not actually say that there is anything tragic about the Emancipation Proclamation. However, we can infer that he does actually...
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History
In order to understand what Martin Luther King, Jr. is saying with this quote from his “I Have a Dream” speech, you will need to read the rest of the paragraph that starts with the quote....
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"I Have a Dream" speech
To answer this question for yourself, think about something you have done that other people weren't doing. It doesn't have to be something that no one in the world has ever done before. It could be...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech certainly does contain all of the parts of speech found in the classical rhetorical arrangement. Two of those parts include the introduction and...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Parallelism involves using similar structures for two or more parts of a sentence or sentences to create a comparison or pattern. One example in the "I Have a Dream Speech" is the four sentences...
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History
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the metaphor of an island and a lonely sea to emphasize how African Americans were set apart from the rest of society. They did...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In this speech King shares his dream for America; he says that he hopes and has faith that this dream will come true, so it is also a prediction. The dream or prediction has the following...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King is actually a bit vague as to what he means when he warns America "will have a rude awakening" if Americans fail to see the urgent need for...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Beginning with his rhetorical repetition of "I have a dream," two effective vocal strategies Martin Luther King, Jr. uses in his "I Have a Dream" speech are pause and pitch inflection.Effective...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr., used many rhetorical devices in his "I Have a Dream" speech, including tone, diction, figurative language, repetition, hyperbole, and allusions. To choose one device that...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
King mentions many parts of the United States in his "I Have a Dream" speech. This is meant to be sure that his audience realizes that the entire country has made equality a dream deferred for...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In his speech at the March on Washington, best known for his "dream," King described the United States as having "defaulted" on a "promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned."...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thesis in his "I Have a Dream" speech is that, even 100 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the African American "still is not free."...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Speaking during the march on Washington, D.C. in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. claims that African Americans have come to the nation's capital to cash "a promissory note," a note that must be...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr. uses many rhetorical devices in his “I Have a Dream” speech. A rhetorical device is a linguistic technique used to help a writer persuade or explain. Without rhetorical...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., gave what would be one of the most important...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech as part of the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. The march, one of the milestones of the Civil Rights Movement, sought to...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Two allusions and one direct reference to the Declaration of Independence can be found in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. An allusion is a very subtle, indirect reference to a...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves. He is the "great American" in whose "symbolic shadow" the attendees of King's address literally stand on the grounds...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
The main advice that Martin Luther King, Jr. gives to African Americans in this speech has to do with the idea of nonviolence for which King is famous. He urges his people to make sure that they...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
The “I Have a Dream” speech was the most famous speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was in need of a significant speech. He needed a speech that would give momentum to the...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Dr. King’s speech is powerful because of its structure. The three main parts to the speech can be seen as embodying much of what the Civil Rights Movement was about. In the construction of the...
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History
If focusing only on events that took place in the 1960s, one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s most significant achievements is organizing and leading the March on Washington in 1963. On August 28, King,...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Long after the Civil War there was racial segregation throughout the United States as the U.S. Supreme Court in 1883 declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. Federal workplaces and...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
If an image is a mental picture that is constructed, then it's fair to say that many of Dr. King's images in the "I Have a Dream" speech are a reflection of a world of what can be as opposed to...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
1. The grandson and son of Baptist ministers, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a minister himself and a civil rights activist who followed the example of Mahatma Ghandi in leading non-violent protests...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
While Dr. King's speech is rhetorically powerful, he offers specific facts and detail that enhance the purpose of his speech. Dr. King clearly understands the context in which he delivers the...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
The metaphors that Dr. King uses in his speech to describe the condition of African- Americans at the time of the March on Washington have multiple layers. One such dimension was the fact that Dr....
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"I Have a Dream" speech
The "I Have a Dream" speech, by Martin Luther King Jr, is one of the most famous orations of all time. Its hopeful tone cries out to its audience to pursue King's "dream" of a racially just America...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
There are many metaphors in this speech, including the dream itself, the mountain, and the bad check. When King says he has a dream, that dream is a metaphor. It is not something he was sleeping...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
From the opening sentence of the speech, Dr. King identified himself with the audience as fellow participants in "what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr., was not just a Civil Rights activist; he was also a Baptist minister, and talented writer and public speaker. Even so many years after his death, the words in his "I Have a...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In the beginning of his speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. refers to the Emancipation Proclamation that came as "a great beacon light of hope" to the African-Americans. However, King observes, the...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
(eNotes editors may only answer one question per response. If you need more specific answers, please resubmit more questions.) Dr. King's audience for the "I Have a Dream" speech was motivated...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
An allusion is a reference to a person, idea, event, character, or another text. Often the reader will recognize the allusion but this is not always the case. The purpose of an allusion is to add...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
An antithesis can be illustrated by juxtaposing two arguments which oppose each other. It can also be illustrated by a contrast of oppositional ideas such as "Give me liberty or give me death"...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In an inspiring speech that educated many of his listeners, Martin Luther King, Jr. organized his oration from the introduction of the problem of racial discrimination to the solution of personal...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. very eloquently outlines the desires and aspirations of African Americans. Very soon after beginning to speak, he notes that it has...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr's main goal was to have African Americans (along with sympathetic whites) fight for their rights through the practice of nonviolent civil disobedience. King believed that it...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
In this speech, King sets out a dream that he has for American society. The basic idea behind his dream is that there should no longer be racism and racial discrimination in the United States....
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King was well aware that although the civil rights movement had provided a focus on racism and discrimination, what had been accomplished thus far was not nearly enough to solve all...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered in front of thousands of attendees at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, is remembered, ironically, for a quote that was not...
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"I Have a Dream" speech
When Martin Luther King, Jr., named so many separate states in his speech, he not only connected with his audience, but he also subtly advocated for a federal solution to the problem of racial...
