In Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, King uses a countless amount of rhetorical devices that increase the overall understanding and flow of the speech. King makes the audience feel an immense amount of emotion due to the exceptional use of pathos in his speech. King also generates extensive use of rhetorical devices, including allusion, anaphora, and antithesis. The way King conducted his speech adds to the understanding and gives the impression that he wants to rise above the injustices of racism and segregation that so many people are subjected to on a daily basis. Throughout King's speech, he uses the rhetorical mode, pathos. , to give the audience an atmosphere of strong emotions like sympathy. For example, whites had sympathy for African Americans and parents had sympathy for their children. The way King tells his speech shifts the focus away from race and back to the aspiration for a world without racism. “…by making its audience no longer hate black people, but rather racism and wish for a new and better world…” (L., Anson). Dr. King led the public to sympathize with African Americans, helping them understand that racist people and prejudiced ideas were at the root of the real dilemma of discrimination. By making the public aware of this, he also gave them hope for a reborn world without racism, without segregation, without discrimination and without hatred. King wanted his children to live in a world without judgment of race, but with consideration of personality, because no one should face judgment because of their appearance. He spoke about his own children, which introduced a heightened emotional attachment to the audience; this gave many parents a scenario to relate to, because no parent wants... middle of paper speech ...... had an immense impact on the injustices of segregation and discrimination in towards people. Works Cited Bates, Claire. "Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech: What Does It Tell Us About Him?" » BBC. BBC History, August 23, 2013. Web. November 20, 2013. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” NAACP. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Web. November 20, 2013. .King, Martin L. “I Have a Dream.” archives. United States National Archives and Records Administration, Web. November 21, 2013. L., Anson. “Rhetorical analysis of the speech “I have a dream”.” Teenink. Emerson Media, Internet. November 20. 2013. .