How does Martin Luther King's use of delivery in his "I Have A Dream" speech help create impact in the audience, such as the use of pauses, eye...

Martin Luther King was, first and foremost, a pastor, and his delivery is in precisely
the dramatic, carefully paced, and modulated style one would expect from a charismatic preacher
of the 1950s and 60s. He uses dramatic pauses and frequently repeated phrases such as "With
this faith..." to underscore the importance of his message and takes time to look around at
his audience, making eye contact with as many as possible.

Throughout the
speech, King has a strong, confident demeanor, calm and in control of hiseven in his most
eloquent passages. This poise complements the controlled lyricism of his language. The pauses
occur with the same frequency and underscore the rhythms of his speech in the same way as the
pauses in a pastor's sermon leave room for a positive response from the audience. Along with the
use of quotation from the Bible, thundering Latinate polysyllables alternating with plain
Anglo-Saxon monosyllables to great rhetorical effect, the pauses emphasize that the...