- What do you notice about the length of the speech?
- What do you notice about the organisations?
- What do you think is the thesis of the speech?
- Name two techniques (with quotes) which you feel are successfully employed and discuss why you feel they are so effective.
- Why do you think that the concluding statement is considered so important and powerful by many Americans to this day?
1. it is a short speech for a speech buy the President of the U.S.A.
2. That the beginning and begging is shorter than the end
3. That America has engaged in a war that was pointless and would have been better if they didn't go to war it would have been better, also that a greater better U.S.A will rise from the ashes of the war.
4. Repetition highlighted in red, Alliteration highlighted in Purple the repetition is useful because he repeated the same thing forcing it into peoples minds and the alliteration is useful because it makes people remember it.
5. because it is about that the people of the U.S.A control their nation and when they want something done they can change it because they are the people and Lincoln says that and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, saying that know matter who is the president the people will will always have the last say about their country.
5. because it is about that the people of the U.S.A control their nation and when they want something done they can change it because they are the people and Lincoln says that and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, saying that know matter who is the president the people will will always have the last say about their c
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - 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 - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
President Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863
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