Gettysburg Address

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Gettysburg Address

• Given by Abraham Lincoln

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Speaker Abraham Lincoln

• 16th President of the United States
• Speech given during the Civil War.
• Term 1861-1865
• Civil War1861-1865

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Purpose To honor those who died in the Civil War.

• Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on
  the battlefield at Gettysburg during the
  dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery.
• Abraham Lincoln was trying to portray the purpose
  of the war and the brave men fighting and dying
  for freedom.

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Audience Americans

• Abraham Lincoln is talking to American citizens
  in 1863 about the Civil War that is taking place
  in their country.
• Americans are suppose to realize what the Union
  is fighting for and how important the lives lost
  are to gaining true freedom throughout the United
  States.

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Medium Outside Venue

• Abraham Lincoln presents the Gettysburg Address
  at the battlefield where all of the soldiers had
  been fighting.
• He speaks to a large crowd that are very much
  impacted by the representation and effect of the
  speech at the Gettysburg cemetery dedication.

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Logos- Appeal to Logic

• Logos is found in the Gettysburg Address when
  Lincoln says, We have come to dedicate a portion
  of that field as a final resting place for those
  who here gave their lives that that nation might
  live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we
  should do this.
• It is logical that it is fitting and proper
  that the battleground cemetery be dedicated to
  the soldiers who gave their lives at the
  battleground.

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Pathos- Appeal to Audiences Emotion

• In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln uses
  we instead of I when speaking. This appeals
  to the audiences emotion because Lincoln is
  including the audience in the way he feels about
  the Civil War and the people who are fighting,
  making the audience believe that they feel the
  same way that he does.

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Ethos- Appeal to Speakers Credibility

• When the Gettysburg Address was given, Abraham
  Lincoln was the President of the United States.
  He was President during the duration of the war.
  This makes him credible because he knows why the
  war is taking place and the goal of freedom that
  is being obtained. His beliefs are the reason
  that the war is going on.

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Mythos- Appeal to Tradition

• our fathers brought forth upon this continent a
  new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated
  to the proposition that all men are created
  equal.
• these honored dead
• These are examples of mythos because they are
  relating to the past and how things have always
  been.
• Mythos is used to make the audience think that
  violating tradition is not appropriate.

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Allusion

• An allusion is a reference to a work of
  literature, or to a person, place, or event
  outside of literature, with which a writer to
  speaker expects an audience to be familiar.
• Four score and seven years ago is an allusion
  to the American Revolution.
• The purpose of the allusion is to link the image
  of freedom from the American Revolution to the
  freedom of all Americans as the purpose of the
  Civil War.

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Anaphora and Epistrophe

• We cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate... we
  cannot hallow this ground. This is an example of
  an anaphora where we cannot is repeated at the
  beginning of each phrase.
• government of the people, by the people, for the
  people This is an example of an epistrophe
  because the people is repeated at the end of
  each phrase.
• The purpose of using an anaphora and an
  epistrophe is to establish a rhythm which
  produces a strong emotional effect.

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Personification

• Personificaiton is a metaphor in which either an
  inanimate object or an abstract concept is
  described as being endowed with human attributes,
  powers, or feelings.
• that nation might live this is an example of
  personification, a nation given life.
• Personification is used to give vivid images to
  the audience so that they are able to relate.

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Asyndeton

• Asyndeton is the deliberate omission of
  conjunctions between a series of related clauses,
  phrases, or words.
• government of the people, by the people, for the
  people is an example of an asyndeton because
  there are no conjunctions used where there are
  suppose to be conjunctions.
• The purpose of using an asyndeton is to produce a
  hurried rhythm and an emotional reaction.

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Presentation By

• Haley Kavelak
• Aaron Dyer
• Alex Locker