Name:
Skylar Patterson
Date:
2-6-2020
School:
Pell City
Facilitator:
2.06 Rhetorical Devices
Part 1: Graphic Organizer
Fill in the graphic organizer below by finding the rhetorical devices that King uses in his “I
Have a Dream” speech. There are many examples of each. You only need to find one.
Type of Rhetorical Device
Textual Evidence: Word,
Phrase, or Sentence
Effect on the Overall Message
Allusion
Emancipation Proclamation,
Segregation, nation’s Capital,
Declaration of Independence,
Mississippi, Alabama, South
Carolina.
Reminding the people that
they are suppose to free men
and woman. And the nation
knows it.
Anaphora
I have a dream
Freedom ring
Free at last
Let the people know that he
had a dream and it was every
African American dream and
that was to finally be free and
to be treated equal as the
whites
Extended Metaphor
Crippled by manacles of
segregation + chains of
discrimination
lonely island of poverty +
ocean of material prosperity
insufficient funds + great
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