Rhetoric from "I Have a Dream" (MLK)

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check...America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• antithesis

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation...

We must continue to conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

• allusion

• figurative language

• personification

• alliteration

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial justice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

• antithesis

• allusion

• extended metaphor

• repetition

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"

We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as...

• repetition

• antithesis

• rhetorical questioning

• parallelism

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.

• Logos (Appeal to Logic)

• Pathos (Appeal to Emotion)

• Ethos (Appeal to Ethics)

• Kairos (Appeal to Seizing the Right Moment)

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."

• cultural allusion

• historical allusion

• religious allusion

• literary allusion

"I have a dream that one day my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

• emotional appeal

• logical appeal

• ethical appeal

• appeal to authority

Which rhetorical elements does Dr. King use in the following quote from the speech?

"I have a dream that one day my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

• emotional appeal

• parallelism

• alliteration

• all of the above

How many years are in a score?

• 10

• 20

• 25

• 100

Which persuasive appeal is Abraham Lincoln using when he states the following words in the Gettysburg Address?

"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."

• ethical appeal

• emotional appeal

• logical appeal

• appeal to authority