USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

[SOURCES]
Use of the words such as “liberty, freedom, and nation” are examples of which rhetorical device?

(A) Holy War

(B) ** Appeal to Patriotism

(C) Parallelism

(D) Anecdote

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -In the speech, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” by Patrick Henry, he used figurative languages such as allusions, parallelism, and biblical references to bring his speech to life. These examples are just a few ways that Henry used literary devices, to create emotion and realism.

Concept note-2: -Repetition, figurative language, and even rhetorical questions are all examples of rhetorical devices.

Concept note-3: -There are three different rhetorical appeals-or methods of argument-that you can take to persuade an audience: logos, ethos, and pathos.

Concept note-4: -Rhetorical appeals are the qualities of an argument that make it truly persuasive. To make a convincing argument, a writer appeals to a reader in several ways. The four different types of persuasive appeals are logos, ethos, pathos, and kairos. Logos, the appeal to logic, is used to convince an audience with reason.