USA HISTORY

) All of the following statements explain the rhetorical significance of the line at the end of Lincoln’s address EXCEPT:COPY:5a) What are the rhetorical devices Lincoln uses in the following line from section 3:“government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”?

(A) ** It makes a comparison between freedom and liberty.

(B) It implies that the civil war will end.

(C) It stresses that the government is a democracy.

(D) It calls for unity and peace in the nation.

(E) It emphasizes the unity of the country

Concept note-1: -“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln is remarkable through the use of rhetorical devices like allusion, antithesis, and tricolon.

Concept note-2: -In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln uses rhetorical strategies such as allusions, repetition, and antithesis to remind the listeners of the purpose of the soldier’s sacrifice: equality, freedom, and national unity.

Concept note-3: -There are three proofs of rhetoric which are pathos, ethos, and logos. Pathos appeals to emotion, ethos is the use of character, and logos appeals to reason. The “Gettysburg Address” given by Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, is a prime example of a speech that uses pathos, ethos and logos.

Concept note-4: -In one of the single most powerful statement known to America, Abe uses epistrophe in the final sentence of the address by saying, “and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” (sent.