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Martin Luther King Jr Use Rhetorical Devices In I Have A Dream

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In “I Have A Dream”, Martin Luther King Jr. persuades people to treat black with the equal rights as whites have. Not to make blacks superior, but to their be peace among blacks and whites. I found this speech the most compelling because he made everyone believe that his dream could become reality. His dream was that black and whites living as equals, with no rivalries between them. Even though he was assassinated, people still continued trying to make his dream real, which was really inspiring for everyone. Martin Luther King Jr. used many rhetorical devices, but he mainly used vocabulary, which was a really great benefit because that made him look smarter which broke the stereotypes and that made people think more differently than before,

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