In Martin Luther King Jr. speech " I Have A Dream " he used many rhetorical strategies to get point across to his African American people and also to show how he felt during this time of segregation. The two strategies he used that i will discuss are allusion and pathos. I will use these because i feel that they are very two important strategies. King was a very intelligent person that used many words to show how powerful and important his speech was. He used allusion to go back in time to bring back an important time in history that all the African Americans will remember. He used it by saying " Five score years ago " he was referring to the Emancipation proclamation that was signed. Also he said " But one hundred years later, the negro still is not free". Then he used pathos by saying " This will be the day when all Gods children will be able to sing with a new meaning" he is saying thats when segregation and all the hatred to African Amer
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