One example of rhetoric that Martin Luther King Jr. uses in his writing is anaphora. The main purpose of anaphora is emphasis—to reinforce an idea by repeating a clause over and over. King uses this several times throughout his speech repeating phrases such as “one hundred years later”, “go back to”, and the two more acclaimed phrases, “I have a dream”, and “let freedom ring”. The repetition of “one hundred years later” emphasizes to the reader how long ago it had been since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and how the Negroes still were not free. “Go back to” was meant to ensure the Negroes that this was an issue that would be solved, and when it was they would be able to go back where they came from and live a life free of prosecution. “I have a dream” accentuates what the Negroes are fighting for, what they hope the world will be like one day. “Let freedom ring,” symbolizes his desire to let the bell of freedom ring loudly for all to hear. Pathos is another form of rhetoric King uses brilliantly in this speech to persuade the audience that civil rights is something worth fighting for. By constantly reminding the audience of the brutality and the segregation the Negroes had to deal with on a day-to-day basis, he evokes emotion—empathy. By including pathos in his argument, he tries to get the reader to put themselves in the shoes of the Negroes. When asked by “devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be satisfied?’” King goes on to explain the daily struggle of a Negro saying “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.” “We can never be satisfied as long as out children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by