唯美英语名著句子赏析

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.文章我就省了，否则太长传不上去。

你在百度里搜一下就好了。Martin Luther King's speech of August 28, 1963 is widely regarded as one of the most powerful ever delivered in the United States. Although this address was delivered orally, it was read from a written text composed with great care. It is an example of formal English with a convincing style. Here are some of the stylistic devices (which maybe considered traditionally as rhetorical devices) used by Dr King to inspire and persuade.3.1 Repetition:Throughout the speech, Dr. King repeats words and sentence. This is a very outstanding feature in this speech called repetition. It belongs to the stylistic device of syntactic over-regularity. The term repetition is restricted to mean the case of exact copying of a certain previous unit in a text such as a word, phrase or even a sentence (Leech, 1969), because all the over-regular features in literature are in some sense repetitious. Used in speech, repetition not only makes it easy for the audience to follow what the speaker is saying, but also gives a strong rhythmic quality to the speech and makes it more memorable. In paragraphs 8 through 16, for example, King uses the words “I have a dream” nine times. This repetition helps to achieve the function of coherence in discourse and the function of reinforcement in mood and emotion, expressing the speaker's strong emotion of longing for freedom, justice, righteousness and a much more united nation of all of God's children.If we study the whole speech more carefully, it is easy for us to find many other examples of repetition used.① But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro.② is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.Here the phrase “one hundred years later” has been repeated three times, seemingly indicating that it is really a long time for the Negro to wait for the coming of the time of justice and righteousness.The words “Let Freedom ring…” has been repeated as many as nine times to indicate that it is the whole of the United States rather than any part of it that should be bathed in the sunshine of freedom.3.2 Use of ParallelismParallelism is another syntactic over-regularity. It means exact repetition in equivalent positions. It differs from simple repetition in that the identity does not extend to absolute duplication, it “requires some variable feature of the pattern-some contrasting elements which are 'parallel' with respect to their position in the pattern”(Leech, 1969:66). To put it simply, parallelism means the balancing of sentence elements that are grammatically equal. To take them parallel, balance nouns with nouns, verbs with verbs, prepositional phrases with prepositional phrases, clauses with clauses, and so forth.In his speech, Martin Luther King uses parallelism to create a strong rhythm to help the audience line up his ideas. Here are few examples：⑤…by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination…（Par.2, two parallel noun phrases）⑥“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drag of gradualism.” (Par.4, two parallel infinitive phrases: “to engage…to take…”)⑦“There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America…”（Par. 5, two parallel nouns joined with “neither…nor”）⑧“We shall never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity…”（Par. 7, two parallel verb phrases）It is traditionally believed that parallelism is used for the purpose of emphasizing and enhancing, esp. in speech, the ideas expressed by the speaker (or author in written versions), thus always encouraging and inspiring the audience. We need not to be very carefully to find out many more examples of parallelism used in King's speech and classified as is followed:3.2.1 parallel nouns：⑨This not was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (Par. 3, three parallel nouns as attributive)⑩1963 is not an end, but a beginning (Par. 5, two parallel nouns joined with “not…but…”)⑾Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. (Par. 6)⑿…have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny。

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