Repetition In Dr. King's I Have A Dream Speech

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Andrew Smith October 18,2014 English 9/Mod 4B Mr. Lewis Term Paper: Analysis of Repetition in Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream Speech" The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the repetitions used in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. " I Have A Dream" speech. In his speech Dr. King uses repetition to make his speech more powerful and it also help people to a better understanding of the speech. The repetition of words in his speech also help the audience to have a more visual reality of the speech. The “I Have A Dream Speech" was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C on August 28th, 1963. Dr. King speech was to help eliminate racism between blacks and whites. Dr. King was trying to unite both the black race and white race as one. In his…show more content…
King uses a lot of repetition in his speech to emphasize a lot of things in his speech. One of the sentences Dr. King repeats is "One hundred years later". The key words in this sentence is "one hundred" and "later". Those two key words put emphasis on the time of how long ago slavery was abolish yet blacks were still been treated as slaves. Blacks had no rights, they were still in poverty. Nothing has changed for blacks, they were still living in a country where they were hated and was looked down upon with disgust because of the color of their skins. Dr. king wanted the world to visualize how long one hundred years was, and how far they have come from been slaves but even so there was no change, no hopes for…show more content…
King used and repeated was "Dream". The key word " dream" emphasize that this was his dream and he wanted to share his dream and vision with everyone. The importance of using "dream" was to show everyone what he wishes for the future. Dr. King could see a future in the word "dream" He saw that the day will come when blacks and white will unite as one. Dr. King was dreaming of how blacks and white will overcome racism. He saw everyone living in unity. Black and white kids holding hands in the future, playing in reality. Dr. King believed in his dream and had faith that despite all the bad things that was happening eventually everyone would be equal. . The importance of his use of repetition at this point was that his dream is basically his plan what he wants to happen. If repeats it over and over we would start making his dream a
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