Gettysburg Speech Analysis

The historian David Blight says that Lincoln’s message in the Gettysburg Address was to help the people recover from the deficit from the Battle of Gettysburg and the casualties that were caused by it. Lincoln simply wants to rebuild the country.

The use of rhetorical devices in Dr. King’s speech was critical. He used allusion, anaphora, pathos and logos to persuade his audience to do influence his audience to stand with him. Dr. King was one of the best speakers in history because he used the devices very

President Lincoln was trying to tie together the key principles of our founding fathers with freedom, equality, and democracy which are embodied

union he may have lost the election. In several speeches made by Douglass he expressed "the mission of the war was the liberation of the slaves as well as the salvation of the Union. I reproached the North that they fought with one hand, while they might fight more effectively with two; that they fought with the soft white hand, while they kept the black iron hand chained and helpless behind them; that they fought the effect, while they protected the cause; and said that the Union cause would never prosper until the war assumed an anti-slavery attitude and the Negro was enlisted on the side of the Union." After the announcement of the Proclamation of Emancipation, the Governor of Massachusetts was given permission to create the regiment of

President Ronald Reagan changed the way society viewed public speaking and politics and continues to make his impact on the world today as his rhetoric serves at the outlines of numerous governmental leaders such as President Trump (Costa). While his speeches occurred over thirty years ago over television and radio, Reagan is still remembered as being a monumental orator in history as his speeches are still highly critiqued in both academic settings and public history (Hayward)(Peters and Woolley). Throughout my paper, I will analyze the rhetorical devices Reagan used that were meant to unite, in order to help readers understand the rhetorical devices used in political rhetoric, which consequently both united and excluded certain people. Understanding past rhetoric of an orator such as Reagan will lead to a better understanding of the rhetorical devices used by political figures and the impacts they

Four and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. He gave the Union soldiers a new perspective on the war and something to fight for. Before the address, the Civil War was based solely on states’ rights. Lincoln’s speech has the essence of America and the ideals that were put into the Declaration of Independence by the founders. The sixteenth president of the United States was capable of using his speech to turn a war on states rights to a war on slavery and upholding the principles that America was founded upon. By turning the Civil War into a war that was about slavery he was able to ensure that no foreign

Lincoln clearly said what he did to please his listeners. Out bursts the politician and statesman in Lincoln. A few months later in Southern Illinois, a very different Lincoln said:

First, President Lincoln uses pathos, or an appeal to others' emotion, throughout his speech. The first hint of pathos is is before the "impending civil war" that "all dreaded [and] all sought to avert." Another clue of pathos is when President Lincoln maked a remark that dealt with religion. For example, "Both [parties] read the same Bible and pray to the same God..." The example

In Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and Henry’s speech in the Virginia Convention; both authors use the rhetorical devices ethos, logos, and pathos. Lincoln’s use of said devices provided a solid, clearly elaborated, and easy to listen to “Address” whilst Henry’s speech strengthened and structured clarification on all issues at hand, bringing the audience literally off of their seats providing for an exciting, powerful, yet bold speech. Patrick Henry’s use of ethos throughout his speech particularizes his views in the end by stating, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” and shows he wants to stand up for his country and its people. Lincoln’s use of ethos most effectively works in his address provides credibility among the highest authority,

On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln gave his 2nd Inaugural Address. The message of his Inaugural Address is centered around the war, and how they must continue to finish what has started to move on and unite their nation. Abraham Lincoln used several rhetorical devices such as pathos which included allusions to religious texts, appeal to the audience, ethos which Lincoln established a common ground that war is a terrible thing, and lastly logos with his data on colored slaves and population along with appealing to the logic in which war is naturally a very negatively impacting thing. Lincoln uses all of these rhetorical devices to portray the message that everyone must end the war quickly and help heal their nation. Abraham Lincoln with his rhetorical

The Gettysburg speech was short, sharp, powerful and one to remember. Still to this day it remains to a well known, well respected speech.

Abraham Lincoln uses figurative and euphonious diction to encourage reflection on the Civil War to the people of Northern and Southern United States. First, he uses figurative paradox to contradict judging others (the slaves), and expect that "we" (the owners of the

To convey the fact that while physically unappealing Lincoln's brilliance and congenial attitude made him an excellent president, the speaker

Two of the most important speeches in history, The “Gettysburg Address” and the “Emancipation Proclamation”, were given by Abraham Lincoln within a year of each other. In both of Lincoln’s speeches, he uses Pathos and detail to grab the audiences attention and also understand the importance of the speech. Especially in the “Gettysburg Address”, Lincoln utilizes Pathos to get the audience to really understand the importance of the speech and feel pity and grief over the hero that fight for our country. Lincoln states that they must all, "dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live” (Lincoln). This is giving the reader a feeling of the sorrow that the fighters and their family’s went through