USA HISTORY

Analyze the following passage:“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate ____ we can not consecrate ____ we can not hallow ____ this ground."Of the rhetorical devices we’ve discussed, which is most prominent?

(A) Repetition

(B) ** Parallelism

(C) Logos

(D) Iambic Pentameter

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 “I Have a Dream”, Martin Luther King Jr. extensively uses repetitions, metaphors, and allusions. Other rhetorical devices that you should note are antithesis, direct address, and enumeration.

Concept note-3: -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-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.