The rhetorical device being used in the
sentence above is parallelism.
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Parallelism uses words and phrases identical in
structure. As in the sentence, “<span>They have chained, bound, and gagged our freedom”,
uses the same form of the verb which is in past tense.</span></span>
The correct answer is number 2. It introduces the topic and hooks the audience.
<em>The main purpose of the first paragraph of the speech It introduces the topic and hooks the audience. </em>
The Gettysburg address’ first paragraph, by Abraham Lincoln, introduces the topic and hooks the audience. The phrase that uses Lincoln is a biblical reference to “three score year and ten” which supposedly was the time humanity was supposed to live. Lincoln changed to “Four score and seven years ago…” to start its speech and catch people´s attention.
Seeds begin as a very small object or device, just like our courage. We only need a tiny little seed of courage for it to grow, and once you give that little courage it continues to grow.
It was a complex but entertaining book. All the different characters and situations
that act separately come together in the end in a very entertaining way. It combines several themes to make a very
interesting story that has people giving their praise to it. All in all, it is about several incidents coming down as one.
