Martin Luther King Jr. a great charismatic speaker, uses many different rhetorical phrases in the speech in his I have a dream speech. One of my favorite things to use personally is metaphors, so I listened more intently for those. I heard several of them. “Seared in flames of withering injustice” this is a comparison of flames to injustice. “Storms of persecution” compares storms to being persecuted. This phrase conjures up a vision in my head of Paul in one of his many times in prison, or the early persecution of the church. The word “Storms” gives so much life and voracity to this phrase. I jotted down several others, but those was probably my two favorites. I only was able to hear one example of personification, there may have been more, but this is the only one I was able to pick up on. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed," in this personification King is giving the “nation” America human like attributes as to rise up and live. One example of an alliteration I found was “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.”  The words symbolic, shadow, signed, repeat the same sound in the beginning and form almost a rhyming sense. It didn’t take long to hear the first instance of a literary allusion, his second sentence states “Five score years ago” which is an allusion that sounds a lot like Abraham Lincoln’s “Four score and seven years ago” from The Gettysburg Address. Later in his speech there is some text that sounds a lot like a piece of scripture from my favorite minor prophet Amos 5:24 which states “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” King in his speech writes “justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream”. This allusion I would never have picked up, but I just finished an in depth study of Amos. I am sure there is more scripture allusions and references in this speech that I am not hearing or recognizing.   Two of the most repetitive phrases I heard are “I have a dream” which was used multiple times in the speech, and “Let freedom ring” which was used several times towards the end of his speech.