Lincoln used a time of hurt and pain to fuel his country's anger. He realizes that he is at a memorial service, but at the same time he uses the tragedy and turns it into hopes and dreams. He bases his speech on life and uses a lot of imagery to do so. He uses three images of birth in the first sentence. Lincoln says: "conceived in liberty;" "brought forth;" and "by our fathers." Then the birth is immediately followed by images of death. He once again says: "final resting

place;" "gave their lives;" "living and dead" and the "honored dead." This is symbolic towards the nation because this is really happening at the time. He then talks about resurrection to give the people an idea of what they should believe. He wants to make it sound like our freedom will be immortal when he says, "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom" and "shall not perish from the earth." He makes a lot of reference to Jesus Christ and God. He compares the nation to Jesus!

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Lincoln is a man of few words but who knows how to get his point across. By using metaphors, great word choice, repetition, clauses, and parallelism he covers all aspects that needed to be covered. He consoles the family, mentions the problem at hand, an

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