Literary Device
A rhetorical device through which speakers list or name things or actions in a row.
What is tricolon?
to form or develop in the mind; devise
What is the conceive?
"Four score and seven years ago..."
What is 1776? What is the Revolutionary War? The Declaration of Independence?
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." What literary technique is being used?
What is parallelism?
By referencing the Constitution at the end of the speech, what is Lincoln saying about the United States?
What is a democracy?
A form of repetition in which a grammatical pattern is repeated.
What is parallelism?
to take away from
What is detract?
"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."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
"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." What literary device is being used?
What is an allusion?
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." What is the rhetorical point of this sentence?
What is "Will the Union survive if it is already at war?"
A figure of speech that places two completely contrasting ideas or clauses in juxtaposition.
What is antithesis?
To dedicate as sacred
What is consecrate?
"...all men are created equal" is a direct reference to what historical document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground." What literary device is being used?
What is tricolon?
"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." What literary device is Lincoln using and what does it do?
What is antithesis and what is driving home the sacrifice that the dead soldiers made?
The use of the same word or words more than once.
What is repetition?
Define as holy
Who is hallow?
The phrase, "government of the people, by the people, for the people" is a reference to which historical document?
What is the Constitution?
In the third paragraph, Abraham Lincoln says the word "dedicate" several times. What literary device is he using?
What is repetition?
By repeating the word "we" eleven times, what does Lincoln achieve?
What is showing our shared national unity, values, and experiences?
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, or thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.
What is an allusion?
To die or come to an end
What is perish?
"We are met on a great battlefield of that war" is a reference to what?
What is the Gettysburg battlefield?
By comparing the nation to a child, Abraham Lincoln is using which literary device?
What is a metaphor?
By referencing the Declaration of Independence in the first paragraph and the Constitution in the third paragraph, what is Lincoln trying to remind his audience about?
What are the principles of freedom and equality?