Gettysburg Address Rhetorical Analysis
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
SPAM:
Speaker: Abraham Lincoln
Purpose: To honor those who died in the Civil War and especially those at the battle of Gettysburg
Audience: Americans
Medium: Outside Venue
3 Appeals of Rhetoric:
Logos: Appeal to logic
• “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.”
• It is logical that it is “fitting and proper” that the battleground cemetery be dedicated to the soldiers who gave their lives at the battleground.
Pathos: Appeal to the audience’s emotion
• In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln uses “we” instead of “I” when speaking. This appeals to the audience’s …show more content…
He was President during the duration of the war. This makes him credible because he knows why the war is taking place and the goal of freedom that is being obtained. His beliefs are the reason that the war is going on.
Rhetorical Devices:
Mythos: Appeal to tradition
• “our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
• “these honored dead”
• These are examples of mythos because they are relating to the past and how things have always been.
• Mythos is used to make the audience think that violating tradition is not appropriate.
Allusion: a reference to a work of literature, or to a person, place, or event outside of literature, with which a writer to speaker expects an audience to be familiar.
• “Four score and seven years ago” is an allusion to the American Revolution.
• The purpose of the allusion is to link the image of freedom from the American Revolution to the freedom of all Americans as the purpose of the Civil War.
Anaphora and
Abraham Lincoln
SPAM:
Speaker: Abraham Lincoln
Purpose: To honor those who died in the Civil War and especially those at the battle of Gettysburg
Audience: Americans
Medium: Outside Venue
3 Appeals of Rhetoric:
Logos: Appeal to logic
• “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.”
• It is logical that it is “fitting and proper” that the battleground cemetery be dedicated to the soldiers who gave their lives at the battleground.
Pathos: Appeal to the audience’s emotion
• In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln uses “we” instead of “I” when speaking. This appeals to the audience’s …show more content…
He was President during the duration of the war. This makes him credible because he knows why the war is taking place and the goal of freedom that is being obtained. His beliefs are the reason that the war is going on.
Rhetorical Devices:
Mythos: Appeal to tradition
• “our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
• “these honored dead”
• These are examples of mythos because they are relating to the past and how things have always been.
• Mythos is used to make the audience think that violating tradition is not appropriate.
Allusion: a reference to a work of literature, or to a person, place, or event outside of literature, with which a writer to speaker expects an audience to be familiar.
• “Four score and seven years ago” is an allusion to the American Revolution.
• The purpose of the allusion is to link the image of freedom from the American Revolution to the freedom of all Americans as the purpose of the Civil War.
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