"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreade
d it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation." Which rhetorical element is included in this passage from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?
A) ethos
B) pathos
C) theme
D) thesis
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I thought it would have been Logos, buuut, that was not one of the options. :')
Pathos is the rhetorical element that tries to appeal to people with their emotions, by saying that there were people already willing to destry the union while he was giving his speech.
