Question

In the Gettysburg Address, what inferences is made about how lincoln considered the audience and the situation when choosing his rhetoric? Cite evidence from the text to support your inference.

Answer 1

We can infer the following :

1. Those men who gave their lives,did not die in vain""that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain (lines 18-21)""
2. This war is betraying the ideals of the nation-he is saying that this war needs to come to a close.""lines 1 to 6: our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty and dedicated to the..."""

Answer 2

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln addressed the whole American nation as its audience and uses rhetoric repetition, alliteration, diction to make the audience connect better to his address.

Who was Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was an American lawyer and statesman who was ranked as the greatest president in American history.

In his Gettysburg Address, he targeted the whole American nation and uses repetition such as "we cannot", alliteration  “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth”, and diction such as nobly, perish, and so on.

The use of such rhetorical devices draws the attention of the audience along with developing a sense of unity among them. Therefore the inference that can be made is that he wants to reach a maximum of the population of the nation and unite it for the common good.

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