6 With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on
to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. What is the primary rhetorical device Lincoln uses in paragraph six to unify and heal the nation?
A) Allusion
B) Logical Appeal
C) Ethical Appeal
D) Emotional Appeal
In this paragraph of his speech, Lincoln uses an emotional appeal to get the audience on his side. By bringing up unity and peace, especially referencing widows and orphans, Lincoln is trying to manipulate the emotions of his audience to get them to agree with him.
Machiavelli uses reasoning and an example as evidence in an argumentative structure to support his claim that a prince must destroy a city that is accustomed to freedom if he wants to hold it.
Repetition emphasizes the tone and mood of the narrator, when we see that he repeats the bad qualities any one can guess that the narrator is angry, this applies to real life as well.