India Davis
Use this form to help compare the structure of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream
speech with Old Major’s speech in Chapter One. Find phrases from each speech that
serve as appropriate examples for each box below.
Basic Structure
I Have a Dream
Old Major’s Speech
Describe the
present situation
During Martin l. King Speech During Old Major speech Mr.
the white people were
Jones and his family had the
benefiting. They had better
Who's benefiting benefits because all things they better benefits. Mr. Jones had
used and schools they had were
under the
everything he needed and the
better than the colored
current
animals did not.
conditions?
Prove unfairness
Who's suffering
under current
conditions?
The colored people were
suffering under the current
condition because they were not
able to get an real education,
some of them were harass and
nothing was done to the people
or person who harass them.
The animals were suffering
under the current condition
because they wouldn’t get fed
most of the time because
Jones would forget
Provide a vision
of a better way
What would
conditions be
like if the
conditions were
fairer than they
are now?
“Rings Shall vanish from our
“The sons of former slaves and
the sons of former slave owners
will be able to sit down together
noses, and the harness from
at the table of brotherhood.”
rust forever, Cruel whips no
“Little black boys and black girls
will be able to join hands with
little white boys and white girls
as sisters and brothers.’
our back. Bit and spur shall
more shall crack.”
“Bright will shine the fields of
England, Purer shall its waters
be, Sweeter yet shall blow its
breezes On the day that sets
us free.”
Call for Action
What must be
done to achieve
fairer
conditions?
To achieve fairer condition
To achieve fairer condition
whites and blacks most come
the animals think they have to
together and there must be
equal rights for all, not just one overthrow mankind for them to
kind.
have fairer condition.
Analyzing Political Speeches
PART II: Use this form to help compare the rhetorical tools used in Martin Luther
King’s I Have a Dream speech and in Old Major’s speech in Chapter One. Find examples
of each to place in the appropriate boxes below.
Rhetorical tools
Alliteration
I Have a Dream
“Let freedom ring from the
mighty mountains of New York”.
Examples of
Old Major's Speech
“Is it not crystal clear, then,
comrades”
repetition of
sounds.
"May men of
merit be
motivated to
act!"
Repetition
“ I have a dream”
“Now comrades” and “Beast
of England”
Key words or
phrases that are
repeated for
emphasis.
Metaphor
“ Every hill and mountain shall
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be made low, the rough places
will be made plain, and the
crooked places will be made
straight; "
comparisons
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that help
listeners
"envision"
meaning.
"Let our dreams
soar on wings of
optimism!"
Rhetorical
Questions
There are those who are asking
the devotees of civil rights,
"When will you be satisfied?
List questions
“The wild creatures, such as
rats and rabbits --- are they
our friends or our enemies”?
that are for
effect rather
than to be
answered.
"Will we stand
now on the brink
of history or will
we let the
moment pass
unchallenged?"
Allusion
Find historical or
literary
references.
"President
Kennedy once
told us to 'Ask
Five score years ago, a great
American, in whose symbolic
shadow we stand today, signed
the Emancipation Proclamation.
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what we could
do for our
country.' And,
now it is the time
to DO!"