Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is made rhetorically effective in a few ways. This powerful speech was directed towards the American people after the brutal Civil War. Lincoln was trying to bring the shattered nation back together. He started off using history as an opener about how our founding fathers dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal ( Note: President Obama used same tactic in his Medicare speech.) Lincoln also used repetition in his speech. In particular, he used the word dedicate in many forms and the word "we". We believe that he used dedicate to show the people of America that they had to be committed to this country just the many soldiers that died on this field, and the word we to show that "we" are a unified country, one. Lincoln also states," we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. " He goes on to say that our poor power cannot add or detract it. Lincoln is putting these men that died here far above us. We think that he is trying to show the American people to not let them die in vain, and come together as a united country that the soldiers wanted.
Greg, Todd, Kevin, Chrissy
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