Question

. In this excerpt from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, he argues that the divided Northerners and Southerners must stay united:
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Which type of appeal does President Lincoln use in this excerpt?

emotional appeal
ethical appeal
logical appeal
moral appeal

Answer 1

Emotional appeal

President Lincoln calls to the listener's emotions.

Answer 2

Answer: A) Emotional appeal.

Explanation: When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. Three of the must used rhetorical devices are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is an appeal to the audience's ethics, logos is an appeal to the audience's logic and pathos is an appeal to the audience's emotions. In the given excerpt from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, he uses an emotional appeal, to persuade the Northerners and Southerners to stay united (we can see that in the use of phrases like " We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies" and "..stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land..."