Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was given on August 28, 1963, in Washington D.C. This speech was effective because of metaphors. Repetition of hey points and quotes from notable sources. Metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things. For example “a great beacon of light” in paragraph two, the effect that this quote has on the speech is it compares the “I Have a Dream” speech to the hope …showed first 75 words of 379 total…

…showed last 75 words of 379 total…no rights. A final example of quotes from famous sources is" My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty if thee I sing...” from the patriotic song, that wants to let freedom ring yet blacks are victims of discrimination. Every speech has things that make it distinctive from the next, for Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a Dream" speech, metaphor, repetition and quotes from other speeches make this speech what it is.