Diction In I Have A Dream Speech

In Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech (1963) "I Have a Dream," brings an up–roaring excitement to his audience, African–Americans, which fills their hearts. He employ's cases of diction and parallelism, telling everyone that he wants African–Americans to be truly free. This turned the tides for African–Americans in the United States, filling them with enthusiasm and the yearning for change. In this speech, King utilizes diction throughout, such as "we," "America" and "free." Words like "we," and "America" in the same sentences and same speech, gives everyone, African–Americans, the feeling of being equal and they deserve to have the same rights. Thus giving hope to everyone that they will, one day, be equal in everyway and have the same unalienable

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Martin Luther King Junior delivered a speech on August 28, 1963 about one dream that millions would know about and make happen.Washington D.C., Virginia, in front of the Washington Monument, a couragous black man walked up to the podium to deliver a world famous speech called "I Have A Dream" and would change America forever. Martin Luther King Jr. was that couragous black man, and he was giving the speech to tell the world that although the Negro is considered free, they are under deep discrimination, and every person shall be equal. He supports that opinion by giving motivational appeals such as his 4 children that need to live in a world of equality, or Imagery, such as Abe Lincoln being the first to try and make equality by signing the

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