Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln – Collections Pgs.

27-28
To which seminal document does Abraham Lincoln allude? _________________________________________
Cite the allusion _________________________________________________________________________________________
Which universal values does he address in the first paragraph?
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What is the historical circumstance of Lincoln’s address (why/where is he giving the speech)?
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Chart instructions: Write what Lincoln literally and figuratively means by these terms:
Term Literal - exactly what is Figurative – other meanings of
phrase/word
civil war

battlefield

Parallelism – The repeated use of similar structure in order to emphasize an idea or point.
Cite an example of parallelism from paragraph #3: ________________________________________________________________
What idea does this emphasize? ______________________________________________________________________________________
Cite a second example of parallelism from paragraph #3: _________________________________________________________
What idea does this emphasize? _____________________________________________________________________________________
What two ideals does Lincoln urge his listeners to care about and fight for?
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How does he use universal values to convince his reader to take action?
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What is Lincoln’s central claim in The Gettysburg Address?
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The word dedicate is repeated several times in this speech. What does dedicate mean in this context and
how does this repetition make clear his central claim?

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