USA HISTORY

“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."The most prominent rhetorical device is:

(A) ** Alliteration (Immediate)

(B) Ethos

(C) Parallelism

(D) Alliteration (Non-Immediate)

Concept note-1: -Lincoln means that the extreme sacrifice the men who had fought and died on that battlefield have made was in itself a greater act than any other could now, or ever, perform in ordaining the soil on which they died.

Concept note-2: -Alliteration can be found: “our fathers brought forth” “new nation” “our poor power to add or detract"

Concept note-3: -“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln is remarkable through the use of rhetorical devices like allusion, antithesis, and tricolon.

Concept note-4: -Abraham Lincoln used literary devices like alliteration, repetition, and personification to produce a special effect in his speech. He stated his speech off with an allusion.