week 4

English 9
Loren Marie C. Cruz
 WHO IS MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR.?
 WHEN AND
WHERE WAS THE
SPEECH
DELIVERED?
 WHAT IS THE
PURPOSE OF MARTIN
LUTHER KING’S I
HAVE A DREAM
SPEECH
• Civil Rights Act of
1964
• Voting Rights
• First African
American “Person of
the Year”
What’s in Common?
Presidents

MLK
Salespersons
Why do they
need to be
Persuasive?
How can a person be Persuasive?
 Learning
Outcomes
Recognize and define the different
01 types of rhetorical devices

identify rhetorical devices used in

02 MLK speech to convey a point or
convince an audience; and

Construct analysis using the

03 rhetorical devices found in MLK
speech.
 State of the
Nation

Presidential
campaign/ debate

Regretful ex-
lover

Extension of
Deadline
The ethical appeal;
convincing the
audience of the author's
credibility or character
The emotional appeal
Being able to persuade
an audience by
appealing to their
emotions
The appeal to Logic
being able to convince
an audience using logic
or reason
What is Martin Luther
King’s Main Appeal?
We cannot be satisfied as long
as the Negro’s basic mobility
is from a smaller ghetto to a
larger one
Let’s Analyze
When we allow freedom ring-- when we let it ring
from every city and every hamlet, from every state
and every city, we will be able to speed up that
day when all God’s children, black and white,
Jews and Gentiles, protestants and catholics, will
be able to join hands and sing in the word of the
old Negro spiritual
Let’s Analyze
What is Martin Luther
King’s Main Appeal?
Ethos
Pathos
RHETORICAL
DEVICES
SIMILE
“Justice rolls down
like waters and
righteousness like a
mighty steam”
METAPHOR
“A lonely island of
poverty” and “the
heat of injustice”
Personification
I have a dream that one
day this nation will rise
up and live out the true
meaning of it’s creed
Alliteration
“capital to cash a
check” and “dark and
desolate”
Imagery
“The night was black as
ever, but bright stars lit
up the sky in beautiful
and varied
Anaphora
This is the repetition of
a word or phrase, often
at the beginning of
series of sentence or
Anaphora
Allusion
is a casual reference to
a famous historical
event and literary
figure or person.
Allusion
Amplification
Writer repeat something
they’ve just said, while
adding additional detail
and iformation
Amplification
This happens when a
writer makes a point twice
in a row, with greater
emphasis, details or
Amplification
This happens when a
writer makes a point twice
in a row, with greater
emphasis, details or
Amplification
America has given the
Negro people a bad check,
a check which has come
back marked “insufficient
Antithesis
Is used to express
opposing ideas in the same
sentences, employed to
secure emphasis
Antithesis I have a dream that my
four little children will one
day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by
the color of their skin but
by the content of their
CHALLENGE
 Reflection:
how can you make a
CLASSICAL LITERATURE 37

change?
 TODAY I
DISCOVER________
CLASSICAL LITERATURE 38

__?
1. To me, his grin is like
kryptonite.
2. Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
3. That’s one small step for a
man, one giant leap for
4. “This is crisis. A large
crisis. In fact, if you’ve got
a moment, it’s a twelve-
story crisis”
5. She had a feeling she
had a golden ticket.
THANK YOU