Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

As a speech, this text includes a clear claim or thesis

supports ideas with specific evidence

makes a call to action to the audience in the conclusion

Claim or Thesis - An expression of the writer’s position on an issue

Evidence - Specific information, such as facts, quotations, and examples, that supports the thesis

Appeal - A persuasive method intended to influence the beliefs of the audience

Call to Action - An attempt to convince the audience to do something based on the argument

Author's purpose - the reason an author writes a text (or gives a speech)

The purpose of an argumentative text is to persuade the audience to believe in or do something

Rhetorical Devices - techniques that influence the way a text is understood by the audience. Lincoln uses several

Diction - words that the author chooses to include

Parallelism: the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related

Allusion: quotations or references to a familiar person, place, event, or literary work

engross

venture

deprecate

wring

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