American Speeches

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."​ is an example of what?

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. is an example of what?

• Simile

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Anaphora

"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Diction

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. What device is being used?

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Imagery

• Euphemism

What is the tone of the Gettysburg Address? (Tone)

• Hopeful for the future

• Angry at the South

• Sad at the loss of Lincoln's family

• Confident in a Northern victory

What is the “unfinished work” to which Lincoln refers in line 16 of the Gettysburg Address? 

• consecrating a cemetery

• abolishing slavery

• not dying in vain

• preservation of the nation

To what does the word stripes most closely refer in the following passage from the speech?

The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that has brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me.

• noun | bands

• noun | streaks of blood from battle

• noun | marks indicating a prisoner’s uniform

• verb | decorates something in a series of lines

What does Lincoln mean when he says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” (lines 13–15 G.A.)?

• Actions are more important than words.

• It is more important to talk about beliefs than to take action about those beliefs.

• The consequences of commemoration will last far longer than the consequences of their heroism.

• The soldiers dedication to the Union should be honored with our words and the commemoration of the cemetery.

In “Second Inaugural Address,” Lincoln says he wants

• another chance to give his speech

• a continued civil war

• an end to slavery everywhere in the country and lasting peace

• a new hat and beard

“All we have to fear is fear itself” these are the words of __________.