As Mark was reading a speech lyrics before the speaker came out.He thought to himself this is very boring their is no emotion in it.Then the speaker came on and did his speech.Mark thought that was so good It was very emotional,and now he know that there's a difference between listening to and reading a speech.The audience experiences different pace, emotion, and repetition while reading or listening to a speech.In the speech I have dream by Martin luther king He uses punctuation and commas to show pause in his writing,but when he speaks it he uses his voice.In the speech by John F Kennedy He uses repetition and emotion to get his point across. When reading a speech the reader can only depend on the words, while listening to a speech the listener
For example In reading a speech the pace changes by the writer using punctuation like commas to show pauses.King writes “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation” (King 1).When reading, one can see punctuation, Fsuch as commas, which indicate when to pause. In listening to a speech the speaker uses it voice to pause King writes “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation” (King 1). What King writes shows When listening, one can hear pauses when the speaker enunciates and slows down his speech, even when no punctuation is present in the written text.In reading a speech the pace changes by the writer using punctuation like commas to show pauses,but in listening to a speech the speaker uses it voice to
For example Kennedy writes “ask not what america can do for you but untied what we can do for the freedom of man” (Kennedy)! In listening they use their voice to show emotion. Kennedy States “ask not what we can do for you but what you can do to help other”(Kennedy).What kennedy states shows how he uses his voice to put emphasize on the point he wants to make on helping others.In reading a speech the author uses explanation and punctuation to show emotion and in listening they use their voice to show
In Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech; he used a bunch of repetition such as a hundred years later; I have a dream; we must; and let freedom ring. When doing this it makes the reader understand that the author is trying to get his point across. He used
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To begin with, Dr Martin Luther King influenced his audience through the use of written techniques. A written technique applied in the speech is repetition, which is the restatement of words or phrases.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream” and Frederick Douglass speech are similar and different by how they approach the subject and their tone of voice. The history of King and Douglass show how they became civil leaders of their times. The video on King’s speech show how many people came to listen and how King handle himself during the speech.
The novel's dialogue and monologue alike manage to relay the feel of natural speaking such as "I mean you'd be different in some way - I can't explain what I mean. " The contractions “you'd” and “can't”, since they are common in everyday language, establish a very common and simple tone. Stress on the first syllable of "different" reinforces the tone by demonstrating how typically they speak. He uses dashes for pauses and the signaling of associative digressions. Instead of signaling pauses, commas are used only where mechanically required.
Jefferson and King both use repetition to emphasis the purpose of the document and speech. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson states “he has” to show the many problems America is facing with the King in charge. He even repeats “for” to show the crimes that the King has made on his own people. The use of repetition makes the listener not forget the purpose of the speech. In contrast, King uses more figurative language and imagery to get his message across. For an example, when he states “… the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” or even “… Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity” (King). King even uses metaphors. For an example when he refers to cashing a check to freedom. One of the main rhetorical devices he uses is repetition. He uses it throughout his entire speech, it is shown by these quotes “one hundred years later,” “now is the time,” “we can never,” “go back,” “I have a dream,” and “with this faith” (King). These repetition helps the listener understand that Negro equality was a big problem at that time. Jefferson’s document has to do more with political problems while King’s speech as to do with personal ones. The Declaration of Independence is more demanding and argumentative while I Have a Dream speech has and
Are Martin Luther King Jr. dreams deferred? Have King’s dreams and hopes ever come true? Most Americans today tend to believe that King’s hopes and dreams did come true, but did they really? In 1963, King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” was published while King was in Birmingham’s jail. King’s letter than was written in a margin in the Birmingham’s newspaper to express and criticize white clergymen beliefs and inappropriate actions. In 2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Letter to My Son” was published on The Atlantic to argue that African-Americans lives will never be as important as white Americans. In 2016, John W. Whitehead’s “What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Ask Martin Luther King Jr.” was published on The Huffington Post to argue how King’s
Speeches are a method of persuading people to do something. For Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, their speeches were to bring equality for the people of color. However, their approaches are different. Consequently, the effects may be different. An example of their contrasting differences is a speech from each, King’s “I Have a Dream” and X’s “The Black Revolution”. Their speeches used pathos, a central metaphor, and a warning, but was presented differently.
On August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous and powerful speech I Have a Dream, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The purpose of his speech was to fight for the civil rights, equality, and to stop the discrimination against African-American people. His use of imagery, repetition, and metaphor in his speech had created an impact with his audience. King used the three rhetorical devices, ethos, pathos and logos to help the audience understand the message of his speech.
Repetition is useful to show the audience the importance of the subject and the urgency to react. King’s historic speech in 1963 has held great symbolic value not only for the African Americans, but also for all of the equal rights supporters of every age and race. He was the first one who really fought for the same rights of African Americans and therefore inspired other people to live his dream and to continue his work for racial equality. Work Cited King, Martin Luther Jr. “I Have a Dream”.
Churchill would add pauses such as throughout the quote, “sure I am that this day -- now we are the masters of our fate; that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance(“Winston Churchill 'Masters of Our Fate' Speech to).” By adding these pauses Churchill added an additional weight to the situations and points brought up throughout the speech. This then revealed that Churchill had total control on the impact of certain parts of his speech. Which then points out that the pauses Churchill used could make a superior authority on the reactions of his audience. Strangely the usage of pauses Churchill entwines in his dialogue have a current effect on the world today because many politicians that currently influence the future fate of the world have copied Winston Churchill’s style of vocal
In Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, King makes use of an innumerable amount of rhetorical devices that augment the overall understanding and flow of the speech. King makes the audience feel an immense amount of emotion due to the outstanding use of pathos in his speech. King also generates a vast use of rhetorical devices including allusion, anaphora, and antithesis. The way that King conducted his speech adds to the comprehension and gives the effect that he wants to rise above the injustices of racism and segregation that so many people are subjected to on a daily basis.
The text was written with reading out loud in mind, that can not be recommended; but it is suggested that the reader attend with his ear to what he takes off the page: for variations of tone, pace, shape, and dynamics are here particularly unavailable to the eye alone, and with their loss, a good deal of meaning escapes. (87)
President John F. Kennedy brings about a new way of thinking in his inaugural speech. He brings in a sense of selflessness and relentlessness for the country. He uses literary devices such as, antithesis, repetition, and rhetorical questions to bring about that sense in the audience. He begins by putting himself to the people and allowing the audience to feel welcomed. The use of literary devices in his speech allows the audience to recognize his goal, which is moving forward and bringing change to the country.
Speeches, they are large body paragraphs of words put together on a page to persuade, inform, and explain so many topics. They all can be so similar but also very different, in ways most wouldn’t think of. They can open the eyes of those who are lost, and change lives and the way things are thought of. The two speeches, “The Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg”, and “Pericles’s Funeral Oration” are speeches that similarly support the same topic but are still very different.