Rhetorical devices
Q. What are some refrains in the Gettysburg Address?
Gettysburg Address: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.
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- Q. What are some refrains in the Gettysburg Address?
- Q. What are two examples of repetition in the Gettysburg Address?
- Q. What did Lincoln not mention in the Gettysburg Address?
- Q. What was the main message of the Gettysburg Address?
- Q. What is the greatest concern in Gettysburg according to Lincoln?
- Q. What is a metaphor in the Gettysburg Address?
- Q. What does Four score and seven years ago mean?
- Q. What did the Gettysburg Address say about slavery?
- Q. Why the Gettysburg Address is so powerful?
- Q. What was the major reason why some Northerners were angered by the Gettysburg Address?
- Q. What was the last state to join the Confederacy?
- Q. How many states with slavery did not join the Confederacy?
Q. What are two examples of repetition in the Gettysburg Address?
A word-by-word analysis of the Gettysburg Address reveals the following words are repeated:
- We: 10 times.
- Here: eight times.
- Dedicate (or dedicated): six times.
- Nation: five times.
- Allusion.
- Antithesis.
- Imagery and metaphors.
- Repetition.
- Tricolon and parallelism.
Q. What did Lincoln not mention in the Gettysburg Address?
Thus, there is no mention of Gettysburg, just “a great battle-field.” There is no mention of America, just “this continent.” There is no mention of the United States, just “a new nation” and “that nation” and “this nation.” There is no mention of the parties to the conflict, no North or South, no Union or Confederacy.
Q. What was the main message of the Gettysburg Address?
Lincoln’s message in his Gettysburg Address was that the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech, but rather by continuing to fight for the ideas they gave their lives for.
Q. What is the greatest concern in Gettysburg according to Lincoln?
Answer: The greatest concern mentioned by Lincoln was Democracy itself and its ability to sustain itself.
Q. What is a metaphor in the Gettysburg Address?
Birth, death, rebirth and immortality (“shall not perish”) — in a place that we will make sacred (“hallow” and “consecrate” and the key repeated word, “dedicate”) — is a stunning extended metaphor that turns into an biblical allusion of hope for transcendence even during the worst suffering, with the Battle of …
Q. What does Four score and seven years ago mean?
So “four score and seven years” translates to 87 years. This speech was delivered in 1863; 87 years earlier was 1776, the year that the signing of the Declaration of Independence officially declared U.S. independence and “brought forth on this continent a new nation.”
Q. What did the Gettysburg Address say about slavery?
What is going to be their status in American life? INSKEEP: Well, let me just mention, in this very brief Gettysburg Address, Lincoln doesn’t explicitly mention slavery at any point. Was he still… FONER: He did not use the word slavery, but he talks about the new birth of freedom.
Q. Why the Gettysburg Address is so powerful?
It is considered one of the greatest political speeches of all time, explaining America’s critical challenges in their historical context succinctly while paying tribute to the men who had died in the face of those challenges.
Q. What was the major reason why some Northerners were angered by the Gettysburg Address?
How did Taney’s rulingh further divide the Norht and south? The south was happy, but the north was angry because the ruling meant slavery could spread west.
Q. What was the last state to join the Confederacy?
North Carolina
Q. How many states with slavery did not join the Confederacy?
Four Slave States
