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Thesis Information:
Author Lincoln
Prompt Name: GA
Rhetorical Mode: Persuasive
Subject: Resolution of Civil War
Audience: Surviving Soldiers, Union
civilians at the battlefield
listening to him
Occasion: After Gettysburg
Tone: Motivational
Shifts: Lincoln shifts from the strong
foundations of America to the present strife
and hardships endured from the American Civil
to bright/hopeful future
Purpose: to provide the people with purpose to
continue fighting for
SQ: shall not perish from this earth (19)
Why to reestablish the freedom and unification
of the nation so the nation thrives and prospers

Thesis Sentence:

Assertion 1 Concept: _______________
Author:
Assertion Concept:
To/by Statement: (basic verb: to prove)
Purpose/why:

Assertion Sentence:

ADJ + DEVICE + TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: COMMENTARY:
1. Tonal Adj: Solemn/ intimate/ honoring
Dev: Allusion of the Dec. of Indep.
Text EV: .that all men are created equal
(2-3)OfByForthe people (18-19)
Placed in the beginning paragraph WHY? to
est. honor for the founding fathers
- finish the struggle for a better ENDING
Because Linc. takes special notice by
thanking the founding fathers he shows
the audience that freedom is more than
a word but it is a goal that all men
should have for themselves and the
future of the people good
- The founding fathers kept w/ the idea
of freedom through any hardship that
came with it from the BEGINNING
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Comment [GD1]: Pick one and move on
Comment [GD2]: Why is it so important that he
honors them at the beginning? What effect does
this have upon his overarching purpose/ability to
achieve what he wants within his speech? GO
FURTHER with this this is the first time I have seen
someone discuss Ls honoring of the F.Fs
interesting; I would like to see where you take it.
Comment [GD3]: ?
and now the people of the nation must
- Honoring the fact that w/o the fore
fathers the nation would have weak and
or no fundamentals of freedom at all
- Without these fundamentals America
would be presently perishing ; so
therefore, b/c the people have
fundamentals to stand for they must
take the responsibility to heart as Linc.
has done and just like the founding
fathers did
- significant b/c Linc. lays out what the
men of war are fighting for
Functioning as an allusion to the Dec. of Indep.
Contributes to overarching tone of motivation w/
persuasive device logos
- Logos est. Linc. furthered and
applicable knowledge by referring to a
document that lays out the
responsibilities of man
- this contributes to motivational tone b/c
Linc. iinformss informing his audience
the solutions he is giving them in this
speech are further investigations of the
past (with just a proposal of freedom),
the present (with men fighting for the
proposal), and the future which either
holds a new birth of life and equality or
holds a future of rebuilding from
scratch the fundamentals of man
- Linc. motivates his audience by giving
them both the advantages of continuing
the fight and the disadvantages of
letting the nation fall to its knees and
the guilt that will follow for being the
reason for that happening
- WHY? b/c the people of the nation
should uphold them so that the birth
of freedom can occur and not the
perishing of the nation
Chooses to use the allusion of the Dec. of Indep.
as the top and bottom layer of this speech (top
layer =to est ; bottom layer = to re est.)
- WHY? To continually give the most
sacred reason why the people of the
nation should continue fighting
- which is the the nations
future/outcome that they are
responsible for
the audience is aeffected by the reality of the life
and death situation of the nation
Comment [GD4]: It is it is going through a civil
war
Comment [GD5]: Which is what? And how do
you know it contributes to this tone? Explain please
Comment [GD6]: You cant say logos you must
say use of logic
Comment [GD7]: Avoid using helping verbs jus
tuse the verb straight up
- the allusion brings urgency which
shows the audience that the nation can
die as fast as it grows
- urgency happens when he uses one
long line for the conclusion or ending
of his speech
- at the end of that line lies the allusion
which intensifies and builds urgency or
a climax with the repetition of the
people
- and the people is the nation which
includes Linc., the audience, the dead,
and the future generations b/c the
fundamentals of freedom for every man
will live on b/c it has been documented
in the Dec. of Indep.
- but the peoples job is to keep it from
just being documented to being alive
and well in a nation of fairness and
opportunity for everyone
- to move the fundamentals of freedom
from just sitting and waiting to running
and acting
PURPOSE? to give the people reason to
continue the fight so that their nation can survive
and thrive throughout the rest of history
- the proposition of the Dec. of Indep. is
what the Union is fighting to keep alive
and well and if the nation doesnt
continue to fight the nation will die a
painful death
STRENGTHEN? the Dec. of Indep. is a strong
document that gives the nation purpose to live
on, so referring to it not only strengthens the
speech but contributes to its motivational appeal

- The speech is strengthened b/c the
allusion brings more life and truth to
the seemingly lost and forfeited battle
that ONLY the soldiers have been
fighting or have fought
- Now the people see that they are the
key to unlocking the chest of power
and esteem for the nation so that it will
NOT perish away
- HOW? motivates the people to fight for
the overall equality and freedom of
man

Comment [GD8]: How does this bring a sense of
urgency? Explain it in more detail so I buy into what
you are selling
Comment [GD9]: Good, tie in the periodic
sentence here at the end
Comment [GD10]: Strengthen what? What does
this mean?
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Assertion 2 Concept: To revive those principles that were the basis of the nation
Adverbial Clause (Trans. +Previous Ass idea):
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Assertion Concept: revive those principles that were the basis of the nation
To/by Statement: (basic verb: to prove) to ensure a promising future of freedom and equality
Purpose/why: so that the nation will not perish

Assertion Sentence:

TONAL ADJ +DEV + TEXT EVIDENCE (5 words or para.): COMMENTARY:
1. Collective Use of First Person PN we our
throughout the entire speech
- Placed in the beginning of parallel
sentence or repeated excessively in
sentences of similar structures
- SIGNIFICANCE? To show that as a
nation there cant possibly be a fair
Comment [GD11]: ?
share of teamwork to save the nation if
the president points fingers at the
people, or the people point fingers at the
pres., or even ppl pointing fingers at
each other
- Wants his audience to see that he
is jst like them and just b/c he has been
chosen for a higher purpose doesnt mean
that the people cant raise just as high to
make a difference
- this contributes to the
overarching tone of motivation b/c Linc. is
playing on the audiences emotion (pathos)
and applying that to make the audience feel
more attached to the nation by using our
and we multiple times
- b/c he uses the
collective pronoun our he makes the
audience see that it is THEIR nation that
will suffer if THEY dont take action and
THEIR dead family members will have died
in vain b/c THEY didnt take the warnings
Linc. lays out;
- this collective use of we and our b/c is
important b/c linc. wants his audience to feel
more possessive of the land and feel more
purposeful than just everyday ppl. who live
on it; Linc. wants them to feel more intimate
w/ their nation
- the land is portrayed to be
something sacred that the people should feel
responsible for and something the people
should feel attached to to make the fight
something to remember and for later
generations to appreciate





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2. Unifying parallelism as seen in paragraph 2 lines 6-7and 3
lines 15-19 please write your textual evidence out

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Comment [GD12]: Idk what this means
Comment [GD13]: I like this
Comment [GD14]: This is true
3. Impassioning antithesis as seen in paragraph 2 lines 11-
12 please write your textual evidence out

~placement? Packed together in the beginning of
paragraph 3
~why? to create a rush or to show a limit of time
~why? to get his audience straight to the point
~what? That in order for the nation to rise better and
stronger they must take action as soon as possible
~why? the quicker the people conjoin together the
faster the nation can be reborn and the stronger it will
be remembered in history
~ the device is functioning in line 10-11, The brave
men living and deadto add or detract and in line
11-12, nor long remembernever forget
~in lines 11-12 his key point is that actions speak
louder than words
~how? this contributes to the overarching of
persuasion b/c Linc. motivates the people to get out of
their somber thoughts and rise to the occasion to save
their nation
~how?
~why? to show that time is short and the longer they
sit around and mope the faster the nation deteriorates
~why? to get the people to want a new and improved
nation as much as Linc. wants
~this device is important b/c it gives the audience a
since of time as in how long they have to take action
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4. Engulfing kairos as seen in paragraph 2 lines 1-8

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Assertion 3 Concept:
Adverbial Clause (Trans. +Previous Ass idea):
Author:
Assertion Concept:
To/by Statement: (basic verb: to prove)
Purpose/why:

Assertion Sentence:

EVIDENCE: COMMENTARY:
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