"I Have a Dream" Speech – Rhetorical devices – Flashcards
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"five score years ago"
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Allusion to the Getty'sburg address
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"one hundred years later"
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Repetition and emotional appeal
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"In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.
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Check analogy
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"Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning."
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Restatement
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"And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
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Restatement
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"When will you be satisfied?"
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Rhetorical question
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"We can never be satisfied"
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Repetition
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"We are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
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Similie
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"Go back to Mississippi. Go back to Alabama. Go back to South Carolina. Go back to Georgia. Go back to Louisiana."
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Repetition
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
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Allusion
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"I have a dream"
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Repetition
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"With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
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Parallelism
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"This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, "my country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee i sing."
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Allusion
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"Let freedom ring"
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Repetition
