AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Question
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The following is an example of ____ “a new nation, conceived in Liberty”
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Parallelism
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Antithesis
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Alliteration
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Repetition
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -“conceived in liberty”: Lincoln says the country was “conceived in Liberty, ” that is, the people who founded it freely chose to dedicate themselves to a claim – it was not forced upon them. They were able to think freely.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alliteration can be found: “our fathers brought forth” “new nation” “our poor power to add or detract"
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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