USA HISTORY

The following is an example of ____ “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground.”

(A) Parallelism

(B) Antithesis

(C) Alliteration

(D) ** Repetition

Concept note-1: -Which statement best describes the effect of the sentence “But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground"? It builds forcefulness through repetition.

Concept note-2: -To “consecrate” means to make or declare something sacred. Why can those gathered at Lincoln’s speech not consecrate the battlefield? Because the “brave men” who fought and died there already consecrated it through their actions.

Concept note-3: -Without the phrase, Lincoln would only be talking about the survival of a specific place, the nation founded in 1776 (“that nation”). With the phrase – “or any nation so conceived or dedicated” he says the question is not just the survival of that nation – but any nation built on the same principles.

Concept note-4: -words only definitions & notes. dedicate. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.