Martin Luther King And Patrick Henry: Cry For Freedom
Martin Luther King and Patrick Henry: Cry for Freedom
Robert Hernandez
English 11
Moore-4
October 4, 1996
Although Patrick Henry and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both skilled
orators and use similar rhetorical devices to appeal to their audiences, they
call for freedom for two totally different kinds of people. Both Patrick Henry
and Martin Luther King, Jr. show their strengths as speakers through their use
of these rhetorical devices. Among these are parallelism, allusions, metaphors,
and rhetorical questions. Both speakers use these devices well. Martin Luther
King, Jr. is infamous for using parallelism when he states, "Free at last, free
at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" Martin Luther King, Jr. also
alludes to the Declaration of independence many times in his speech. "I have a
dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its
creed, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are......
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