AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Question
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“ ____ far above our poor power to add or detract.”
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“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, “
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” a new birth of freedom”
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“who here gave their lives”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some Common Examples of Antithesis Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. Speech is silver, but silence is gold. Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer. Money is the root of all evil: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.
Detailed explanation-2: -But antithesis normally means simply “opposite". Thus, war is the antithesis of peace, wealth is the antithesis of poverty, and love is the antithesis of hate.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White and the Wicked Witch possess antithetical character traits. Snow White wanted to be kind and helpful to her fellow man, while the Wicked Witch’s bitter jealousy prompts her to poison Snow White with an apple, thus taking away her beauty and charm.
Detailed explanation-4: -Antitheses are used to strengthen an argument by using either exact opposites or simply contrasting ideas, but can also include both. They typically make a sentence more memorable for the reader or listener through balance and emphasis of the words.