USA HISTORY

) Which of the following selections from the opening section best supports your answer to 2a (copy below)?Earlier question:2a) Which rhetorical appeal does Lincoln mostly use in section 1 of the address?

(A) “Four score and seven years ago”

(B) ** “our fathers brought forth on this continent”

(C) “a new nation”

(D) “conceived in Liberty”

Concept note-1: -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-2: -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.