Simple Analysis on the Speech I Have a Dream

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Simple Analysis On the Speech I Have a Dream By 刘彦君 Karen Liu Yanjun Class on 14:00 Thursday 2012202480 * Location: Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. * Audience: 200,000 black people and millions of Americans * Type of speech: extemporaneous speech * Introduction: The first paragraph describes the time and situation, as well as the historical importance of the speech. (41) * Body: In topical order:(Main points) * Contrast of past and the current time: * Para 2 & 3 - The situation of the Negro * Para 4 & 5 – The attitudes of the Americans (white people) * Warning to the Americans and appealing to the black people (Para 6 – 8 & 9 - 14) * Topic – I Have a Dream & Elaboration of his dream (Para 15 – 21) * Sing for their hope, faith and freedom in the future (Para 22 – 28) Connective:” This is our hope. This is the faith that…”(Para 22) & ”This will be the day…”(Para 23) (112) * Conclusion: Crescendo ending (Para 29) * Language: * Alliteration: * ” dark and desolate”(Para 7) * “ dignity and discipline”(Para 10) * “ trials and tribulations”(Para 13) * Simile: * “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light…It came as a joyous daybreak…”(Para 2) * “… justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”(Para 12) * Metaphor: * “… take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”(Para 7) * “This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent…an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”(Para 8) * “The whirlwinds…shake the foundations…the bright day of justice emerges.”(Para 8) * … * Parallelism: * “One hundred years later, … One hundred years later, …”(Para 3) * “Now is the time to…. Now is the time to…”(Para 7) * “We can never be

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