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Thesis Information:
Author: Martin Luther King
Prompt Name: I Have a Dream
Rhetorical Mode: Persuasive
Subject: Segregation
Audience: Civil Rights Activists and antagonists of said cause.
Occasion: Washington, DC
Tone: Empowering
Shifts: Shifts FROM the dark oppression of injustices
in society TO the bright, joyous prospect of the future.
Purpose: To encourage audience to continue fighting until justice,
prevails, ridding America of segregation.
SQ: Free at last (P. 37)

Thesis Sentence: Within Kings empowering I Have a Dream speech delivered in Washington, DC to the
Civil Rights Activists and antagonists of equality, he shifts from the dark oppression of injustice to the bright
and joyous prospect of the future, in order to continue fighting until justice prevails and they can be free at
last (p. 37).

Assertion 1 Concept:
Author:
Assertion Concept:
To/by Statement: (basic verb: to prove)
Purpose/why:

Assertion Sentence:

ADJ + DEVICE + TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: COMMENTARY:
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Comment [EB1]: WHERE IS YOUR THESIS
STATEMENT?
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KEYAHNNA YOU NEED TO MAKE CORRECTIONS FROM THE PREVIOUS COMMENTS I HAVE
MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS NONNEGOTIABLE! YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO THIS. I apologize.
I was so lost because I feel this whole speech has the same aim as Lincolns, but the only difference is it is
about racial equality. And I feel we are doing the same thing as Gettysburg, but on the subject of racial equality
rather than Civil War.
Assertion 2 Concept: To ensure a bright future of America.
Adverbial Clause (Trans. +Previous Ass idea): Throughout In his speech Kings speech, he acknowledges
the struggle and hardship of the Negro people.
Author: MLK
Assertion Concept: To ensure a bright future of America.
To/by Statement: (basic verb: to prove) to show a light in the struggle and hardships that all people are
experiencing by getting them to join hands.
Purpose/why: So, he can express to the people his perspective of the future.

Comment [e2]: This is not an adverbial phrase
Assertion Sentence: In his speech, King acknowledges the struggle and hardships of the Negro people by
ensuring a bright future of America, to prove that there is a light in the hardships that everyone is experiencing
by getting them to join hands, while he expresses his perspective of the future.

TONAL ADJ +DEV + TEXT EVIDENCE (5 words or
para.):
COMMENTARY:
1. Facilitating + anaphora + I have a dream
(18-24) + We can never be satisfied (P.
3) + Let freedom ring (P. 28-36)

1. Inspiring + anaphora + I have a dream (p. 18-
24)
King implements anaphora throughout the
speech
To peacefully enforce his point of view and
to emphasize his dream
To show that he is going through the struggle
just as his audience is, but he feels that they
must think positively and see the good in
having their own dreams
King repeats I have a dream to show his
audience that he will fight for his dream,
equality, and freedom for all of them and that
they should feel as passionate as he does
b/c everyone deserves the same rights bound
to them as American citizens enumerated in
the DoI
which he alludes from to emphasize his
dream and the natural right that all men are
created equal (p.18)
which is the ideology that all of his audience
should share
b/c that is why the Negro people and their
whitesisters and brothers are there at
that moment in time; b/c they feel America
needs to be transformed into an oasis of
freedom and justice (p.21)
and to show that by their divine rights they
should not sit back and let America treat them
based on the color of their skin (p.21) but
by the color of their character
he personifies character b/c he feels that
someone character is what someone should
apply their judgment to not the pigmentation
of their skin
also his repetition of I have a dream
establishes his character and goodwill
b/c although I is a first person pronoun he
uses in a way to share and care with his
audience
King uses I to voice opinions that everyone
in his audience shares and cares about
It is as though King is voicing what lies deep
in the souls of his audience but are to bound
by racism and oppression to share it
King shares his viewpoint with the audience
so that they can all join hands and hope for a
Comment [e3]: You need to write this out
Comment [EB4]: AGAIN, YOU NEED TO WRITE
THIS OUT
Comment [e5]: Weird adj
Comment [EB6]: AGAIN, YOU HAVE TO PROVE
TO ME HOW THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS
ASSERTION IDEA
Comment [e7]: Idk how this is showing the
bright future

better future for themselves and their
posterity (but not only to dream it but also to
act on their dreams and make it happen
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2. Signaling + imagery + Negro is still sadly
crippled bychains of discrimination (P. 3)
+ swelteringheat of injustice (P. 20)
+ its governorhis lips dripping (P.
23)
1. Reassuring + imagery + With this faith (p. 27)
+ Now is the time to lift our nationto the solid
rock of brotherhood (p.6)
In paragraph 27 King really triggers the
senses and emotions of his audience
By his diction; his diction shows Kings
emotion towards the dream of getting freedom
by transforming the jangling discords of our
nation into a beautiful symphony of
brotherhood
jangling is denotated as a loud,
discomforting sounds at which he
metaphorically states the nation is making
But then he calms his audience by telling
them a beautiful symphony awaits their
longing ears ,that have heard the sounds of
struggle, will be waiting for them if they fight
for their rights that are inextricably bound to
them by the promissory note (p.4) written
by the architects of our republic (p.4)
King also utilizes a balanced asyndetonic
sentence
To emphasize that they must all work
together (p.27) to reach that light shining
with freedom and a future of beautiful music
That will make them all together form a
brotherhood among single person in the
American nation not by color, but by faith and
character

The last sentence in p.6 establishes Kings
credibility
b/c he states that Now is the time to lift our
nation (p.6)
our wraps Kings passion, destiny, and
prosperity with the nation, but more directly
the people of the audience
King implies thru this that just b/c he holds
the bravery of spilling his emotions out to the
people of the nation, doesnt mean they are
any less deserving of the freedom and equality
He wants his audience to understand/realize
that now is their time to rise up and lift our
nation from the quicksands of racial injustice
to the solid rock of brotherhood
Comment [e8]: Weird adj
Comment [e9]: Again this is weird
Comment [e10]: This is great but I am not sure if
your textual evidence supports your assertion
idea.
Once again King wants his audience to feel
familiarly attached to one another throughout
the fight for the solid foundation of equality
for all

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3. Eclectic + P.O.Vs + I must sayour rightful
placewe must not be guiltyto satisfy our
thirst (P. 8)
3. Righteous + syntactically balanced sentences +
Let freedom ring from the (p. 31-36)
The sentences from paragraph 31-36 are
placed toward the end of the speech and
further emphasizes its anadiplosively allusive
continuum from the last lyric from the the
song he includes in paragraph 28
Each sentence consists of let freedom ring,
a prepositional word from , which follows
with an adjective and another prepositional
word, and lastly the place the adjective is
describing
King balances these sentences for emphasis
on the fact that no matter where the people of
the audience are from those states work to
complete the puzzle of America
And the people must work together to
complete the puzzle of freedom
He also point out one special feature about
each one of the places
To show that each person of America is as
different as the states they derive from and if
they can work together for equality and
freedom there is no stopping the opportunities
that will follow them throughout their life and
their future generations
b/c they will be free at last (p.37) and no
longer bound by the territorial boundaries of
the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire
(p.31) to every hill and molehill of
Mississippi (p.37) and free at last from
the chains of discrimination (p.3)
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Assertion 3 Concept:
Comment [e11]: Welding, first, isnt an
adjective; second, it is weird.
Comment [e12]: This may be good; however, I
am not sure where you are going with it
Adverbial Clause (Trans. +Previous Ass idea):
Author:
Assertion Concept:
To/by Statement: (basic verb: to prove)
Purpose/why:

Assertion Sentence:

EVIDENCE: COMMENTARY:
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