AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Question
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“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:
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Alliteration (Immediate)
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Ethos
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Parallelism
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Alliteration (Non-Immediate)
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alliteration can be found: “our fathers brought forth” “new nation” “our poor power to add or detract"
Detailed explanation-3: -“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln is remarkable through the use of rhetorical devices like allusion, antithesis, and tricolon.
Detailed explanation-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.
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