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QuizMultiple Choice

Comparing Argument Techniques in Two Speeches

Question 10 of 10 • CA-Expository Reading and Writing B

Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "The American Dream” speech.America is essentially a dream, a dream as yet unfulfilled. It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities and of all creeds can live together as brothers.Now read the excerpt from Governor George Wallace's inaugural address.And so it was meant in our political lives . . . whether Republican, Democrat, Prohibition, or whatever political party . . . each striving from his separate political station . . . respecting the rights of others to be separate and work from within their political framework . . . and each separate political station making its contribution to our lives. . . .And so it was meant in our racial lives . . . each race, within its own framework has the freedom to teach . . . to instruct . . . to develop . . . to ask for and receive deserved help from others of separate racial stations.

Answer
A
the use of repetition
B
an appeal to logic
C
an appeal to credibility
D
the use of imagery