https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
– Read and listen to the links above and then write 3 full paragraphs (5-7sentences).
Write one full paragraph in which you identify the speaker’s audience and purpose and use specific examples to illustrate how you know that these are the speech’s actual audience and purpose. (A brief Google search might be helpful to learn when your speech was actually delivered and to whom!)
Write one full paragraph in which you examine the speech’s use of rhetorical appeals (pathos, logos, ethos, and/or kairos) and use specific examples to demonstrate the use of those appeals. Please also explain the impact these appeals have on the audience (readers/listeners)–how do these appeals help make the speech more persuasive?
Write one full paragraph in which you identify at least one literary or rhetorical device (hyperbole, irony, repetition, rhetorical questions, allusion, parallelism, etc.–use the site linked above to find others), provide specific examples of the literary/rhetorical device being used in the text, and fully explain the impact of these literary/rhetorical devices on the audience, readers or listeners–how does this literary device effect the audience and help make the speech more persuasive?
