Answer: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech," delivered on the National Mall on August 28, 1963—one of the most (if not the most) powerful statements on the urgency of equality and civil rights for Black Americans—is in part a product of King's background as a Baptist minister, in which powerful rhetoric and figurative language (such as allusion) plays a role in every sermon. The speech is grounded in the sermon tradition, with its rich texture of imagery, metaphor, allusion, and passion.
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