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Martin Luther King Ap Language Essay

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a very influential man during the 1950s and even now. He orgnized nonviolent protests to bring about equal rights to all americans, nomatter the race, the age , the color of your skin, your culture, your religion, and even the culture . He was not onlya civil rigt actiist but also an amazing writer and public speaker. he used many things that influenced his writing and speaking such as emotionaly charged laguage or speech, paralellism, restatement, repetition, and analogys. some of his writing includes ' i have a deam' and a 'voincefor the oppressed' dr Martin Luther King uses parallellim to make his pont direct and clear in his writing and speeches.Paralellism is the repetition of a grammatical structure or an arrangemet of words to create rythm and momentum. paralellim can be used to improve writing and readability, and is thought to make sentences easier to process. He uses paralellism in the sentences , "five score years ago" , and " one hundred years ago" the …show more content…

repetition is the use of the same words frequently to reinforce concepts and unify speech. repetition can cause writing and speeches to become more emotional and clear as the writing or talking continues. he uses repitition in the statement , "we will no be satsfied as long as the negro population are the victims of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies , heavy with fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobity is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one ." the statemet is also an example of emotionaly charged language as well as the rest of his speech because the emotionaly charged language caused his speech to be more influential and

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