Rhetoric permeates our lives through everyday television, messages, advertisements, politics as well as speeches whether we realize it or not. A well-known speech, The Gettysburg Address, fuses many distinctive types of rhetoric such as diction, syntax, rhetorical devices along with the rhetorical triangle into a brief yet compelling speech with a lasting impact on the nation. The speech barely took one minute to deliver with only two hundred and sixty seven words, however Lincoln’s rhetoric accomplished so much with so little. Strategies in use in The Gettysburg Address are diction along with syntax, Lincoln manipulates these strategies in a way in which acts as extremely effective. The speech incorporates seventy four percent of one-syllable
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Lincoln incorporates the repetition of “we” throughout the speech to exhibit ethos by establishing a connection with the American people. Lincoln evinces automatic ethos with the authority along with credibility present as Lincoln is the President of The United States. The lines, "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract,” exploits pathos in which Lincoln places the soldier’s deeds above the speech and the cemetery's dedication, furthermore the pathos draws attention to Lincoln’s purpose of making the American people feel as if they must finish the war (Lincoln). Additional pathos presents itself in the lines, “"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did 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," the pathos provokes the audience’s compassion (Lincoln). The Gettysburg Address demonstrates logos in the beginning when discussing how the Civil War has torn apart a great free nation brought forth by the founding fathers. Lincoln exemplifies logos
Lincoln incorporates the repetition of “we” throughout the speech to exhibit ethos by establishing a connection with the American people. Lincoln evinces automatic ethos with the authority along with credibility present as Lincoln is the President of The United States. The lines, "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract,” exploits pathos in which Lincoln places the soldier’s deeds above the speech and the cemetery's dedication, furthermore the pathos draws attention to Lincoln’s purpose of making the American people feel as if they must finish the war (Lincoln). Additional pathos presents itself in the lines, “"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did 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," the pathos provokes the audience’s compassion (Lincoln). The Gettysburg Address demonstrates logos in the beginning when discussing how the Civil War has torn apart a great free nation brought forth by the founding fathers. Lincoln exemplifies logos