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Repetition in "The Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

Ethos Example

"Was not Jesus an extremist for love: 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Was not Amos an extremist for justice..."

Repetition

Pathos Example

-the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

Martin Luther King Jr.

"But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mother and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse kick and even kill your black brothers and sisiters; when you..."

Logos Example

Effect of Repetition on the Reader

Repetition causes the reader to focus on everything, but what is repeated makes the reader focus on main points, makes the passage

seem more like a list.

"A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with moral law... An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law."

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