SAT Essay Practice: Martin Luther King Jr.

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SAT Essay Practice: Martin Luther King Jr.
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As you read the passage below, consider how Martin Luther King Jr. uses:

Evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

Reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

Stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

Write an essay in which you explain how Martin Luther King Jr. builds an argument to persuade his audience that American involvement in the Vietnam War is unjust. In your essay, analyze how King uses one or more of the features listed above (or features of your own choice) to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of his argument. Be sure that your …show more content…

Use transitions and make connections not only between paragraphs, but among sentences, too. Play with different types of sentence structures (some long, some short, etc.) and more vivid, descriptive word choice to make the essay engaging to the reader.

Breaking The Silence
Dr.King builds his argument to persuade his audience that American involvement in the Vietnam war.He uses rhetorical devices such as ethos and pathos to move the audiences emotions and establish credibility among the audience wanting the audience to not be silence in addition convince them that the war in Vietnam is unjust plus persuades them to take a stand.

He states with quotes "Black young men being sent eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem".Pathos is used here wanting to make the audience feel guilty that there sending there sons to fight a war as well as give a country liberties that they dont have here at home that is what Mr.King uses to fuel his audience with anger towards the unjust

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