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"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.. it is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."
"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow- this ground."
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Issue: The civil war
Medium: Speech
Audience: The American People
"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
The people in the nation should finish and continue what those who sacrificed their lives fought for.
Lincoln uses anaphora by the constant repetition of "we cannot"
Those who have died in the civil war need to be honored.
"Fourscore, and seven years ago our hers bought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the preposition that all men are created equal."
"...that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
The people of the nation should try to change it for the better
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
The idea that the nation should remain divided instead of united. The South and The North should remain divided.
The main idea of "The Gettysburg Address" was to unite the nation
Lincoln is using an allusion here because Lincoln is talking about the birth of the nation.
Emily Alas