What Is the Gettysburg Address

Why did people gather in Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863? 

• To abolish slavery
• To dedicate a national cemetery 
• To encourage the Confederacy to rejoin the Union
• To hear campaign speeches for the upcoming Presidential election

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Who was the speaker of "The Gettysburg Address?"

• Abraham Lincoln

• Edward Everrett

• Jefferson Davis

• Andrew Jackson

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Who was the intended audience?

• All Americans

• Union soldiers, residents of Gettysburg, and loved ones of the deceased

• The Confederacy

• School students across America

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What was the speaker's message of "The Gettysburg Address?"

• Legally give slaves freedom

• Unify the the nation and keep our country whole

• Give slaves equal rights

• Dedicate the cemetary and encourage the nation to keep fighting the civil war

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Lincoln said the soldiers had consecrated the land meaning

• they won the war here.

• they made it a sacred site.

• defeated the Confederacy.

• destroyed the Union.

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Use of the words such as "liberty, freedom, and nation" are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Holy War

• Appeal to Patriotism

• Parallelism

• Anecdote

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When Lincoln states, "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom," he is implying which of the following?

• That God believes that he is right.

• God hates the Confederacy

• Using loaded language to create an emotional reaction

• Using Holy War to suggest that God is on the side of the speaker

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In the speech, the speaker claims that we are, "...dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." The underlined portion of text is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Sterotype

• Allusion to the Declaration of Independence

• Appeal to Fear

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When Lincoln states, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." This is an example of which of the following?

• allusion

• rhetoric

• irony

• humor

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Lincoln's short speech begins, famously, with the words "Four score and seven years ago." This is an example of what rhetorical device?

• repetition

• loaded words

• allusion

• parallelism

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