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.
<u>Answer:</u>
Puritans were protestors in 16th and 17th century who scared people with their sermons.
<u>Explanation:</u>
“Sermon” is a religious talk given in church. Puritans wanted to purify the ''Church of England'' from the ''Roman catholic practices''. They observed that there is a decrease in the number of religious devotees of ''second-generation'' settlers. To increase this, they 'preached' a type of sermon called "jeremiad". This sermon basically wanted to scare people by stating that if anyone committed any sin, they would be tortured and burnt in hell.
By all this, people would remain Puritan and believe in God and Church.
