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Lesson Summary President Abraham Lincoln wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The Gettysburg Addresss significance is that it sought to give meaning to the sacrifice of soldiers who died during the war.
Lincoln employed many rhetorical devices in his talent with words, but his ma- ture speeches are especially characterized by the following literary tools: Grammatical parallelism Antithesis Alliteration Repetition Lincoln used all four strategies in his brief address at Gettysburg.
In the Gettysburg Address, what was Lincoln trying to do? Encourage Union soldiers to continue fighting for the important goal of freedom.
Beginning by invoking the image of the founding fathers and the new nation, Lincoln eloquently expressed his conviction that the Civil War was the ultimate test of whether the Union created in 1776 would survive, or whether it would perish from the earth. The dead at Gettysburg had laid down their lives for this
Lincoln is referring to those who died for the Union cause. Their last act was to give up everything they possibly could for the Union. Lincoln wants his audience to take increased devotion and be inspired to continue fighting.
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I argue that Lincoln, sophisticated lawyer that he was, used the classical tools of persuasion to make a radically new legal argument to justify freeing the slaves, the deaths at Gettysburg, his re-election, and ultimately, the War itself.

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