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zmey [24]
3 years ago
12

How does Lincoln develop his argument? Does he use rhetoric—the effective use of speech? Describe some of the rhetorical feature

s that stood out to you.
English
2 answers:
inna [77]3 years ago
7 0

Lincoln's primary argument was that secession was illegal. He logically presents this idea to the audience when he says:

I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

Lincoln asks several rhetorical questions—questions asked mainly for effect:

Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak—but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

Lincoln also repeats the same phrases at the beginning of sentences for emphasis, a rhetorical device known as anaphora:

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

AlladinOne [14]3 years ago
6 0
Repetition, exclamation
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