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many rhetorical devices in his works. In his I Have a Dream Speech and his Letter from Birmingham Jail uses rhetorical devices such as repetition, antithesis and rhetorical questions. King uses these to persuade his listeners and readers into granting civil rights to Blacks. In his I Have a Dream speech he is talking to people that have been discriminated against and in his Letter From Birmingham Jail he is addressing white moderates. One rhetorical device Martin Luther King uses in both of…

King's use of ethos and allusion in "Letter From Birmingham Jail" proves effective as a method of advocating for the credibility of his cause and civil disobedience. King writes, "Isn't this like condemning Socrates because he's unswerving commitment to the truth and his philosophical delvings precipitated the misguided popular mind to make him drink the hemlock," (paragraph 18, line 3). In writing this, King uses allusion to plead his case for the peaceful protests and their effectiveness.…

America, blacks have often been segregated and punished. One advocator for the end of this treatment was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after a peaceful protest, Dr. King and his fellow protestors were thrown into a jail in Birmingham. In a letter from King while he was incarcerated in jail to the clergy members of the church, Dr. King used rhetoric such as logos, metaphors, and parallel structure in order to show how he thinks his actions were not rash and poorly timed as well as prove why he…

In Letter from Birmingham City Jail, the attempts to assert the direct action of a peaceful civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama was wholly necessary, justified and long overdue. This is a response to an open letter written by “eight prominent ‘liberal’ Alabama clergymen” (46). The clergymen argued that the decision was badly timed and that the participants should let the fight for integration continue only in the federal courts. Martin Luther King JR’s defense begins with his…

“Letter from Birmingham Jail”: King’s Stand Against Social Injustice In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of biblical references served its purpose in making the clergymen realize the injustice they were really exhibiting. They may have claimed that King and his protestors were actually doing the morally wrong thing in their nonviolent protest that, according to them, instigated violence, but they were simply turning a blind eye from the truth of their actions. Since…

pieces of writing. One example is his letter written after his imprisonment in Birmingham jail because of a coordinated march against segregation. The purpose of his letter was to respond to the clergymen that labeled the march unwise. Martin Luther King uses ethos, logos, and pathos to argue to the clergyman that the strategy of peaceful resistance against discrimination is necessary. The Letter from Birmingham Jail best uses logos and ethos to reason his actions to the clergymen. Logos is the…

Martin Luther King Jr. while he was in Birmingham jail four day after clergymen letter was published, on the 16th of April 1963 he responded to the eight clergymen letter. King use his letter to answer every criticist statement that the eight clergymen state about his idea of leading the greatest nonviolent…

“The Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” was written by Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. on April 16, 1963 and talks about different things towards eight clergymen who disagree with Dr. King. During the time when Dr. King wrote this he was especially saddened on how the church, mainly the white clergy, did not assist the religious civil rights movement. King believes white supremacists gave the oppressed African Americans no choice but to act out. The purpose of any writing is the reason why the author…

demonstrations. As the leader of the civil rights movement, those of Gandhi, Socrates, and Paul influenced MLK’s ideas. As a Baptist pastor his movement was greatly influenced by the works of Christ and his Followers. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” he is writing to other clergy for his reasons of imprisonment, the purpose of Non-violent protest, and the direct actions occurring in Birmingham, Alabama. Through the letter Martin Luther King Jr describes the four methods of a nonviolent…

This paper analyzed the letters, “A Call for Unity: A letter from Eight White Clergymen” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. Both letters on the racial tensions and problems during the 1960s. Racial problems in Alabama were at their peak of tensions and these two letters were written with different issues and claims of how to correct the problems between the black and white communities. The clergymen did not believe what the African Americans were doing with their…