Vocabulary List 4 Quiz Today

Today we read and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

We began notes on his rhetorical strategies, with an emphasis on the following:

• Repetition
• Key words/phrases
• Allusions/Quotations
• Metaphors/Figurative Language

You will have to write a rhetorical precis on this speech, which will be due next week.

Take a look at the following image, which enlarges the most frequently used words in his speech.

Also, we listened to an interview with Clarence B. Jones, King's advisor, which aired on NPR in August. Here's the link to that story.