USA HISTORY

) What rhetorical device does Lincoln use in the following line from section 3:(select one) “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”?

(A) Alliteration

(B) ** Parallel structure

(C) Rhetorical question

(D) Antithesis

Concept note-1: -Epistrophe is similar to anaphora, but the repeating words in epistrophe come at the end of the phrase or sentence. Abraham Lincoln’s speech included epistrophe when he famously said: “And that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Concept note-2: -“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln is remarkable through the use of rhetorical devices like allusion, antithesis, and tricolon.

Concept note-3: -In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln urged the American people to ensure that, “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” His repetition of “the people” at the end of each clause is an example of epistrophe.

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.