Wednesday, November 22, 2017

MLK's speech

During MLK’s legendary speech the audience is able to pull the dramatic purpose and the array of powerful intended audience members. MLK is able to attract important political influences at the time by evoking the image of how corrupt our society is and how, “we reuse to believe that the bank of injustice is bankrupt.” He is reminding the reader of the idea of how flabbergasted society is to see these leaders who believe that our society is not suffering. Furthermore, he is also mimicking the religious individuals by the use of ethos in his speech. He mentions at the end, “we will be able to speed up the day when all God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, protestants and Christians, will be able to join hands…” This enhances of the mood of religion in his speech thus ringing in the people of people and emotionally ties them to his speech. The overarching purpose of this is is to represent the movement that one day see an America where are colours are accepted, where it will be free and the future generations will be able to live in peace. This will re-enforce the context because it will ultimately effect the way he uses language and was he choses to include. His attended audience will also be a major factor that will affect the context because who is planning on attracting, he will write a different way an use different language. 

MLK’s unforgettable speech was no doubt influential to the American people and that was all set by his style and structure. In his speech he uses phrases like “Let freedom ring!” “Now it is time to lift our nation…” “I have a dream”. There are all phrases that stress the effect of a call-to-action, and the style is what helped develop his context. He also uses many inclusive terms such as “we” and “us” to help further develop his structure and convey the impression of his context. He also carries the tone of hope in his style, a hope that America will be inclusive and successful. He started off his speech by drawing in the reader and capturing their attention. He did this by mentioning straight from the start what this speech will do. “This will go down in history as the greatest demonstration  for freedom in the history of our nation.”

3 comments:

  1. The way you articulated your points of views were really good! You used a lot of examples from the text and that really helped to make your points stronger. I liked how you related certain rhetorics to their effect on the speech such as to develop his context, etc. Well done!

    ReplyDelete
  2. You've specifically chosen your findings from the text and also, thoroughly explained the effectiveness of this. Your sophisticated choice of words made your writing more strong. The context is clearly visible in your writing and what I suggest, would be to identify some of the rhetorical devices such as anaphora or metaphors. This would be a huge asset! Else, great job! :D

    ReplyDelete
  3. Great use of quotes from the speech, and they are well placed in your sentences, they don't feel forced. Well done for mentioning ethos, and then bringing in justification of that. Only improvement would be to make it clearer what your paragraphs will be talking about in your topic sentences.

    ReplyDelete

TATD Narrative Style Analysis

Many authors use many different types of narrative techniques in order to portray their idealized goal to their readers. “Stream of conscio...