Question

In the Gettysburg Address, what inferences is made about how lincoln considered the audience and the situation when choosing his rhetoric? Cite evidence from the text to support your inference.

Answer 1

We can infer the following :

1. Those men who gave their lives,did not die in vain""that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain (lines 18-21)""
2. This war is betraying the ideals of the nation-he is saying that this war needs to come to a close.""lines 1 to 6: our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty and dedicated to the..."""