Timed write on ‘I Have a Dream’ by Martin Luther
King
In
martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream” the intended audience is essentially
the general public. The speech also focuses down into influencing the African Americans
to fight for their right and to change the views of poverty of
powerful leaders. Therefore, the purpose of this speech is to provide a better
future for the generation of tomorrow and to enable freedom in the grounds of America.
This is conveyed on the last page of the speech where MLK say’s ‘let freedom
ring—from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let
freedom ring!’ This sentence is also an anaphora as ‘let freedom ring’ is emphasised
twice in that sentence. Additionally, this speech is trying to make all
coloured skin people become one and equal, so that African Americans can still
have hope in their living. Furthermore, his words used prove the understanding of the social and political disruption. Moving
onwards, the style of this speech is simply portrayed through the rhetorical
devices used and the effect the speech has on emotion and ethics. The structure
of this speech allows the reader to recognise a call-to-action, attention
grabbing and a hopeful/influential tone.
I really liked your analysis and how you used very good terminology, and your effective analysis of his chosen rhetoric devices. To make it even better, when you state an argument try to go into further detail when supporting it.
ReplyDeleteBy adding further details and fixing minor grammatical errors it would've made the argument stronger. However, there is a clear ACTS understanding of the speech, and the paragraphs are structured well.
ReplyDeleteYou did really well with your analysis of rhetoric and how you related it to emotion and ethics (ethos and pathos). I liked your analysis of ACTS and by adding more evidence from the text you could make your argument even stronger!
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