USA HISTORY

In “The Gettysburg Address", Lincoln uses language that is considered as archaic. What does the word ‘archaic’ mean?

(A) ** words and language that were once common but are now rarely used.

(B) slang

(C) argot

(D) modern langauge

Concept note-1: -Imagery and metaphors. Although the speech is short, Lincoln successfully uses metaphorical language to create imagery a couple of times. The speaker associates the nation with a child, creating a personifying metaphor: “… our fathers brought forth, upon t…

Concept note-2: -“That” is the most common word in the Gettysburg Address: Copy to clipboard. Copy to clipboard. A “stopword” is a commonly used word like “that” or “the” that doesn’t reveal much about the content of a text.

Concept note-3: -In it, he invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the desire for “a new birth of freedom, ” as well as the all-important preservation of the Union created in 1776 and its ideal of self-government.

Concept note-4: -Throughout the Gettysburg address, Lincoln uses the literary device of anaphora-the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series of statements. In this passage, Lincoln repeats “we can not” in order to drive home his point that Gettysburg has already been consecrated, by the dead rather than the living.