Gettysburg address

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The Gettysburg Address
In the Gettysburg address, Abraham Lincoln applied three critical rhetorical devices to appeal to the values, emotions, and logic of his audience. These three values included the ethos, pathos, and logos ADDIN CSL_CITATION { “citationItems” : [ { “id” : “ITEM-1”, “itemData” : { “DOI” : “10.2307/358304”, “ISBN” : “0321172760”, “ISSN” : “0010096X”, “abstract” : “This rhetoric revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. This is a fresh interpretation of the ancient canons of composing: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. It shows that rhetoric, as it was practiced and taught by the ancients, was an intrinsic part of daily life and of communal discourse about current events. This book gives special emphasis to classic strategies of invention, devoting separate chapters to stasis theory, common and special topics, formal topics, ethos, pathos, extrinsic proofs, and Aristotelian means of reasoning. The authors’ engaging discussion and their many contemporary examples of ancient rhetorical principles present rhetoric as a set of flexible, situational practices. This practical history draws the most relevant and useful concepts from ancient rhetorics and discusses, updates, and offers them for use in the contemporary composition classroom. Individuals interested in reading about the ancient canons of composing. Crowley Ancient_Rhetorics_for_Contemporary_Students SMP Page 1 of 1”, “author” : [ { “dropping-particle” : “”, “family” : “Crowley”, “given” : “Sharon”, “non-dropping-particle” : “”, “parse-names” : false, “suffix” : “” }, { “dropping-particle” : “”, “family” : “Hawhee”, “given” : “Debra”, “non-dropping-particle” : “”, “parse-names” : false, “suffix” : “” } ], “container-title” : “College Composition and Communication”, “id” : “ITEM-1”, “issue” : “3”, “issued” : { “date-parts” : [ [ “2004” ] ] }, “page” : “438”, “title” : “Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students”, “type” : “article-journal”, “volume” : “47” }, “uris” : [ “http://www.

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Lincoln uses the logos device appeal to the people’s common knowledge and their commonly held sociocultural norms ADDIN CSL_CITATION { “citationItems” : [ { “id” : “ITEM-1”, “itemData” : { “DOI” : “10.2307/358304”, “ISBN” : “0321172760”, “ISSN” : “0010096X”, “abstract” : “This rhetoric revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. This is a fresh interpretation of the ancient canons of composing: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. It shows that rhetoric, as it was practiced and taught by the ancients, was an intrinsic part of daily life and of communal discourse about current events. This book gives special emphasis to classic strategies of invention, devoting separate chapters to stasis theory, common and special topics, formal topics, ethos, pathos, extrinsic proofs, and Aristotelian means of reasoning. The authors’ engaging discussion and their many contemporary examples of ancient rhetorical principles present rhetoric as a set of flexible, situational practices. This practical history draws the most relevant and useful concepts from ancient rhetorics and discusses, updates, and offers them for use in the contemporary composition classroom. Individuals interested in reading about the ancient canons of composing. Crowley Ancient_Rhetorics_for_Contemporary_Students SMP Page 1 of 1”, “author” : [ { “dropping-particle” : “”, “family” : “Crowley”, “given” : “Sharon”, “non-dropping-particle” : “”, “parse-names” : false, “suffix” : “” }, { “dropping-particle” : “”, “family” : “Hawhee”, “given” : “Debra”, “non-dropping-particle” : “”, “parse-names” : false, “suffix” : “” } ], “container-title” : “College Composition and Communication”, “id” : “ITEM-1”, “issue” : “3”, “issued” : { “date-parts” : [ [ “2004” ] ] }, “page” : “438”, “title” : “Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students”, “type” : “article-journal”, “volume” : “47” }, “uris” : [ “http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=bd89c422-d119-42b6-be6e-b332d7a26d8a” ] } ], “mendeley” : { “formattedCitation” : “(Crowley and Hawhee)”, “manualFormatting” : “(Crowley and Hawhee 439)”, “plainTextFormattedCitation” : “(Crowley and Hawhee)”, “previouslyFormattedCitation” : “(Crowley and Hawhee)” }, “properties” : { }, “schema” : “https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json” }(Crowley and Hawhee 439). He implies to the commonly held sociocultural comprehension of the mandate to one’s nation. Having seen loved ones die, most of the gathered people recognized that the battlegrounds could not have been sanctified more than by the army that had fought there. Many people in the audience could also concur that it was the citizenry’s’ role to continue with the blueprint that had been set by the fallen soldiers. Therefore, with the aid of deductive reasoning, Abraham Lincoln stresses on the importance of continuing to fight for equality and freedom (Bitzer 6). As a result, the nobility of fighting and dying for the values that one believes in is premised. This leads to an enthymeme, whereby Lincoln seeks for the people to understand that if freedom and liberty are outstanding traits that all those soldiers had perished for, then they are characteristics that are worth to continue fighting for. Via this conclusion, Lincoln’s main goal was to encourage the audience, especially people of the North, to withstand and tolerate the fight for liberty and equality. With the aid of this speech, Lincoln wanted to preserve these qualities’ value and in the end his Union (Bitzer 12).
In conclusion, Abraham Lincoln’s speech was quite effective in delivering the message to the masses. His use of the logos literary device was able to capture the logic of the masses.
Work Cited
Bitzer, Lloyd F. “The rhetorical situation.” Philosophy & rhetoric (1992): 1-14.
ADDIN Mendeley Bibliography CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. “Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 47, no. 3, 2004, p. 438, doi:10.2307/358304.