<span>Lincoln uses parallelism in this excerpt to acknowledge the limitations of the memorial ceremony. In this excerpt, it is parallelism because he instilled the words side by side such as dedicate and consecrate, living and dead, add or detract to clearly emphasize that what the men did will forever remain as time will pass by.</span>
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Those are called "creation myths". They show us how everything, not only earth, was created, and what the gods had to endure in order to do so.