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Directions: After reading Old Major's speech from Animal Farm, Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech,
and John Lennon's song "Imagine," answer the following analysis questions in complete sentences. Most questions
cannot be answered in one sentence. Be sure to answer ALL parts of each questions to receive full points.
I.
What word does King use to address his audience?
this word to address the audience?
What word does Old Major use? Why would these speakers use
2.
Old Major uses this word multiple times throughout
his speech.
3.
What is King attempting
4.
How is the message of each speaker similar?
5.
The "rule of three" is a principle in writing that suggests that things that come in threes are naturally more satisfying.
Where do you see the "rule of three" in each of the speeches? What effect comes from this repetition?
6.
A rhetorical question is when someone asks a question that is not meant to be answered, but to set up for the next
piece of information and answer the question himself. What rhetorical questions can you find in the speeches? What
effect comes from these rhetorical questions?
What effect does repeating the word create?
to inspire his audience to do? Old Major?
Lennon?