There are
    six sections in a piece of classical , and King hits them all in
    his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Below are the six parts with both
    their informal and formal names, a description of each, and an example from King's
    speech.
- The introduction (exordium):
 The subject of the address is acknowledged, and the purpose is revealed. The ethos (credibility
 of the author and the argument) is established here. King's opening section announces that he is
 compelled to speak because, one hundred years after the Emancipation of Proclamation was signed,
 "the Negro still is not free."
- Statements of facts
 (narratio): The speaker recites a narrative of events and
 establishes the nature of the argument. The narratio is the longest part of King's speech and
 details all the denials of civil rights African Americans in the United States suffer, including
 segregation of public spaces.
- The division
 (partitio ): The part of the speech in which the speaker sketches
 out what will follow in the argument. In...
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