Question

Which rhetorical element is included in this passage from president lincolns second inaugural address? ethos pathos theme thesis?

Answer 1

You could say that he appealed to pathos. It's an appeal to emotion while ethos is to credibility. He used pathos to speak about sad things like secession and about the evils of slavery and why it should end. He didn't have to appeal to credibility because he was already the president so everyone knew why he was competent.
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